Photograph famous quotes

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
-- A. D. Coleman

#Photography #World #Photograph

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!
-- Abhijeet Sawant

#Photography #Essence #Photograph

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,
-- Aidan Gillen

#Self #Photograph #Conscious

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
-- Alan Moore

#Stars #Photograph

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Eye #Sometimes #Photograph

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
-- Alfred Stieglitz

#Vision #Trying #Photograph

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
-- Alfred Stieglitz

#Looks #Photographer #Photograph

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.
-- Anders Petersen

#Longing #Photograph

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
-- Andre Kertesz

#Moments #Photograph #Fixed

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph
-- Andre Kertesz

#Photography #Enough #Photograph

Photograph each day so we can live forever
-- Andy Biersack

#Forever #Each Day #Photograph

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
-- Annie Leibovitz

#Fighting #Photograph

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Photographer #Photograph

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Photographer #Photograph

You don't make a photograph just with a camera
-- Ansel Adams

#Cameras #Photograph

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Photographer #Photograph

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photography #Photograph #Accidents

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.
-- Ansel Adams

#Photograph #Surface

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.
-- Anton Corbijn

#Light #Assistants #Photograph

A photograph is a biography of a moment.
-- Art Shay

#Biographies #Moments #Photograph

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs
-- Art Wolfe

#Matter #Photograph #Where You Are

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.
-- Augusto De Luca

#Cities #Emotion #Photograph

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
-- Barbara Cook

#Looks #Remember #Photograph

Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
-- Berenice Abbott

#World #Documentaries #Photograph

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
-- Bert Hardy

#Looks #Photographer #Photograph

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
-- Boris Becker

#Taken #Photograph

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
-- Brendan Coyle

#People #Photograph #Caps

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
-- Bruce Gilden

#Smell #Photograph #Streets

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.
-- Caroline Knapp

#Puppy #Photograph #Wallets

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
-- Catherine Opie

#Light #Photograph #Situation

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Host #Photograph #Paint

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.
-- Clyde Tombaugh

#Drawing #Different #Photograph

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Modern #Photograph

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

#July #Issues #Photograph

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
-- David Burnett

#Feelings #Photograph #Motivated

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
-- David LaChapelle

#Photograph #Wanted

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Wings #Personality #Photograph

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
-- Diane Arbus

#Photography #Darkness #Photograph

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
-- Diane Arbus

#Vices #Photograph #Vice Versa

The camera can photograph thought.
-- Dirk Bogarde

#Photography #Cameras #Photograph

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
-- Dorothea Lange

#Photography #Enough #Photograph

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
-- Dorothea Lange

#Photography #Photograph #Consequence

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
-- Dorothea Lange

#Photography #Documentaries #Photograph

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
-- Duane Michals

#Reality #Photograph

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
-- Duane Michals

#Photograph

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
-- Duane Michals

#Photograph #Description #Insight

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
-- Ed Markey

#Abuse #Photograph #Treatment

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
-- Edward Steichen

#Photography #Photograph #Thousand

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
-- Edward Weston

#Photography #Photograph #Program

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
-- Eliot Porter

#Photography #Realizing #Photograph

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.
-- Elisabeth of Wied

#Gratitude #Photograph

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Girl #Expression #Photograph

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
-- Ellen von Unwerth

#Inspirational #Photograph #Angle

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.
-- Emile Gruppe

#Hands #Personality #Photograph

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
-- Emmet Gowin

#Photography #Tools #Photograph

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
-- Eric Cantona

#People #Sometimes #Photograph

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.
-- Erica Jong

#Reality #Photograph #Curious

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
-- Eve Arnold

#People #Giving #Photograph

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
-- Fay Godwin

#Imagination #Photograph

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
-- Fay Godwin

#Views #Photograph

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.
-- Fred Picker

#Photography #Practice #Photograph

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.
-- Freeman Patterson

#Photograph #Humans

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
-- Galen Rowell

#Needs #Want #Photograph

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
-- Garry Winogrand

#Looks #Photograph #Made

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
-- Garry Winogrand

#Photography #Battle #Photograph

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
-- Garry Winogrand

#Photography #Photograph

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,
-- Garry Winogrand

#Looks #Photograph

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
-- Garry Winogrand

#Beautiful #Photograph

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
-- Gerhard Richter

#Style #Painting #Photograph

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
-- Gordon Parks

#Photograph

I used to take photographs just to remember people.
-- Gus Van Sant

#People #Remember #Photograph

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that are different because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.
-- Harry Callahan

#Being Different #Sake #Photograph

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
-- Helena Christensen

#Photograph

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

#Eternity #Photograph #Instant

Your fitsy 10,000 photographs are your worst.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

#Inspirational #Photograph #Worst

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#America #Kind #Photograph

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
-- Jack Johnson

#Dream #Real #Photograph

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.
-- Jacob Aue Sobol

#Trying #Use #Photograph

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Fun #Photograph

I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
-- James Earl Jones

#Enough #Photograph #Wells

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.
-- James Nachtwey

#War #Honest #Photograph

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.
-- Jamie Bell

#Photograph #Feels

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Photograph #Lost

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
-- Jeremy Hardy

#Photograph #Britain #Northern Ireland

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
-- Jerry Uelsmann

#Thinking #Photograph #Obvious

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
-- Jerzy Kosinski

#Literature #Moments #Photograph

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
-- Jock Sturges

#Two #People #Photograph

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
-- Jock Sturges

#Taken #People #Photograph

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
-- Jock Sturges

#People #Photograph #Transactions

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
-- Jock Sturges

#Taken #Photograph #Misinterpretation

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
-- Jock Sturges

#Photograph #Harm

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
-- Jock Sturges

#Thinking #Body #Photograph

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
-- Jock Sturges

#Long #Photograph #Wells

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Perfect #Heartbeat #Photograph

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

#Photograph #Cartier #Burned

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
-- John Ford

#Eye #People #Photograph

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
-- John Hodgman

#People #My Family #Photograph

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

#Looks #Photographer #Photograph

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
-- John Paul Caponigro

#Degrees #Photographer #Photograph

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
-- John Szarkowski

#Photographer #Photograph #Wells