Best 314 quotes in «photograph quotes» category

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

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

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

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.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.

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

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

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

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.

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.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

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