Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.
I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.
'Harry Potter' is very nice because it's very easy to make children happy. All you have to do is have your photograph taken with them.
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
I'm computer illiterate. I believe the Internet has got every photograph and every detail of my life. But no blogging for me, thank you.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.
A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the photograph.
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
If I'm in a restaurant, and someone recognizes me and asks for a signature or a photograph after a drink, that's good for me as an actor.
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.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
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.
The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.
Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
Ive been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without my legs.
I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
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.
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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.