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A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.
I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.
To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.
If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.
I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
I have no problem with someone wanting to take a photograph with me. It is a no for selfies with touching of bodies.
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.
I don't like my work. I didn't like my work in 'Dangal,' and then in 'Photograph,' I was cribbing.
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'
All photography is propaganda.
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.