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Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

Yeah, you’re right about having entire rooms full of film and photos… in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage… I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides… I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that’s happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs,” Alecto responded. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines… The steel mill, the coal mines, the train tracks, the smog in the sky, I’ve been able to rescue it on super-8 and Kodachrome, and no one can remediate those photographs, I can keep them as long as I want to.

Who made the concept of smiling for camera a social norm? It's not required for one to smile unless you really are smiling while photo us being clicked.

Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you’ll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.

A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

All photographs are self-portraits.

All photography is propaganda.

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they have a lot of issues. I just roll with it and see what happens.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.