Photograph Quotes - Page 22

• I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.

  Jackie Collins

  Photography, Passion, Sleep

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• I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.

  Bill Henson

  Reading, Glasses, Textbooks

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

  Bell Hooks

  Photography, Wall, Home

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• ... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

  Adam Gopnik

  Photography, Sleep, Emotional

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• I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she is extremely interesting. I have never seen a picture of her that conveys all of her complexity. That would be a fabulous challenge, to find that in a photograph.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Interesting, Challenges, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.

  Dave McKean

  Art, Drawing, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Love Is, Environment

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• The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Pay, Way

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• I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.

  Annette Messager

  Arms, Faces, Fragments

  Interview with Frances Colpitt, www.artpace.org.

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• I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

  Steven Wright

  Children, Keys, Two

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• The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs we ourselves have taken (or those of friends and family) or when we go deliberately to the photographers monograph or exhibition. The signed image - the appropriated, the owned image - is by far the rarest in this pullulating world of pictures.

  William Boyd

  Taken, Family And Friends, World

  William Boyd (2008). “Bamboo”, p.350, A&C Black

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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Photographer

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• There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Jobs, Manipulation

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• I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

  Michelle Williams

  Wall, Home, Drawing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People often trust low-res images because they look more real. But of course they are not more real, just easier to fake. [...] You never see a 10-megapixel photograph of Big Foot or the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Feet, People

  "Photography as a Weapon". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 11, 2008.

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• I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.

  Errol Morris

  Taken, Thinking, Guarantees

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• A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.

  Andre Bazin

  Drawing, Faithful, May

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

  Harry Callahan

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

  Diane Keaton

  Moving, Cameras, Immortality

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• A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.

  Jeff Koons

  Spiritual, Essence, Doe

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• The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.

  Edwin Land

  Art, Thinking, Needs

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• I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, Mean, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• [My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.

  Annette Messager

  Loss, Animal, Love Is

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