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In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
Wright Morris
In the indistinctness of the image, time casts its resplendent, sluggish path.
2.
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
Man Ray
3.
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
Saul Leiter
4.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women
Naomi Wolf
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The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.
Sally Mann
6.
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
Jerzy Kosinski
7.
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
8.
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
Nan Goldin
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I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.
Robert Doisneau
10.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
Matt Damon
11.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
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If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
Gordon Parks
14.
If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.
Nina Dobrev
15.
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
Mario Testino
17.
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
Jack Johnson
18.
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
Man Ray
19.
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
Susan Sontag
20.
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
Minor White
21.
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
22.
The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
David Burnett
23.
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
Nora Ephron
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A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.
Thierry Mugler
25.
Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Bert Hardy
26.
The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera
Norman Parkinson
27.
There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.
Sarah Kay
28.
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
30.
If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.
Emile Gruppe
31.
You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
Colm O'Rourke
32.
A photograph is a biography of a moment.
Art Shay
33.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
Fay Godwin
34.
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
Jodi Picoult
35.
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
William Eggleston
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Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.
Sally Mann
38.
If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
Saul Leiter
39.
We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.
Christian Boltanski
40.
If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.
Steve McCurry
41.
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
42.
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.
David Levithan
43.
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
Dorothea Lange
44.
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
Stephen Shore
45.
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
Minor White
47.
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz
48.
A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.
Jean-Francois Millet
50.
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Franz Kafka