Top Photograph Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Photograph quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Deborah Smith
A photograph is a souvenir of life!
- Deborah Smith
Collection: Photograph
Image of Sally Mann
The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.
- Sally Mann
Collection: Photograph
Image of Gordon Parks
If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
- Gordon Parks
Collection: Photograph
Image of W. Eugene Smith
You can't photograph if you're not in love.
- W. Eugene Smith
Collection: Photograph
Image of Wright Morris
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
- Wright Morris
Collection: Photograph
Image of Stephen Shore
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
- Stephen Shore
Collection: Photograph
Image of Ted Grant
We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.
- Ted Grant
Collection: Photograph
Image of Freeman Patterson
I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.
- Freeman Patterson
Collection: Photograph
Image of Sarah Kay
There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.
- Sarah Kay
Collection: Photograph
Image of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Collection: Photograph
Image of Robert Heinecken
The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.
- Robert Heinecken
Collection: Photograph
Image of William Eggleston
I like to photograph democratically.
- William Eggleston
Collection: Photograph
Image of Siegfried Kracauer
The photograph annihilates the person.
- Siegfried Kracauer
Collection: Photograph
Image of Jeremy Hardy
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
- Jeremy Hardy
Collection: Photograph
Image of Lillian Bassman
[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
- Lillian Bassman
Collection: Photograph
Image of Olafur Eliasson
Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.
- Olafur Eliasson
Collection: Photograph
Image of Michael Heizer
I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.
- Michael Heizer
Collection: Photograph
Image of Robert Doisneau
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.
- Robert Doisneau
Collection: Photograph
Image of Eugene Richards
I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
- Eugene Richards
Collection: Photograph
Image of Luigi Ghirri
Any photographed human being is always a photograph.
- Luigi Ghirri
Collection: Photograph
Image of Harry Benson
A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.
- Harry Benson
Collection: Photograph
Image of Jim Goldberg
[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.
- Jim Goldberg
Collection: Photograph
Image of Trevor Paglen
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.
- Trevor Paglen
Collection: Photograph
Image of Todd Hido
I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter
- Todd Hido
Collection: Photograph
Image of Todd Hido
If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.
- Todd Hido
Collection: Photograph
Image of Tod Papageorge
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
- Tod Papageorge
Collection: Photograph
Image of Slim Aarons
When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things.
- Slim Aarons
Collection: Photograph
Image of Victor Burgin
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
- Victor Burgin
Collection: Photograph
Image of Fred Picker
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
- Fred Picker
Collection: Photograph
Image of William J. Mitchell
Exile is a series of photographs without texts.
- William J. Mitchell
Collection: Photograph
Image of Ansel Adams
Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.
- Ansel Adams
Collection: Photograph
Image of Dorothea Lange
The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
- Dorothea Lange
Collection: Photograph
Image of Peter C Bunnell
You see in the photograph what you are.
- Peter C Bunnell
Collection: Photograph
Image of Daido Moriyama
Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.
- Daido Moriyama
Collection: Photograph
Image of Joachim Schmid
No new photographs until all the old ones have been used up.
- Joachim Schmid
Collection: Photograph
Image of Walead Beshty
There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.
- Walead Beshty
Collection: Photograph
Image of Edmundo Desnoes
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
- Edmundo Desnoes
Collection: Photograph
Image of Danny Lyon
I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.
- Danny Lyon
Collection: Photograph
Image of Torbjørn Rødland
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An unproductive photograph designed to keep you in the process of looking is of course something larger than an expression of aberrant sexuality.
- Torbjørn Rødland
Collection: Photograph
Image of Roland Barthes
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
- Roland Barthes
Collection: Photograph
Image of Patti Smith
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
- Patti Smith
Collection: Photograph
Image of Susan Sontag
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Photograph
Image of Jeanette Winterson
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Photograph
Image of Susan Sontag
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Photograph
Image of Patti Smith
Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
- Patti Smith
Collection: Photograph
Image of John Berger
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
- John Berger
Collection: Photograph
Image of Berenice Abbott
I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
- Berenice Abbott
Collection: Photograph
Image of Duane Michals
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
- Duane Michals
Collection: Photograph
Image of Sam Abell
Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.
- Sam Abell
Collection: Photograph
Image of Warren Buffett
A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Photograph