Photograph Quotes

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

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.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

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

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

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.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

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.

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

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.

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

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

All photography is propaganda.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

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

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

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

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

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

I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

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

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

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.

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

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

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.

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

Photograph each day so we can live forever

If you want to be a photographer, you have to 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.

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.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

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

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

A photograph has edges the world does not.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.