It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

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

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

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

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

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

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

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

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

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

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

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

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

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

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

For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

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

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

I am what I photograph.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

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

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

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

If you recognize a photograph by me, I'm a failure.

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

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