Photograph Quotes - Page 27

• I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.

  Elton John

  Art, Wall, Inspire

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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

  James Earl Jones

  Enough, Wells, Take Time

  "James Earl Jones: confessions of Big Daddy" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

  Alicia Keys

  People, Pieces, Sometimes

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• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Moments, Posing

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• In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Filmmaking, Manipulate

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• The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

  Sienna Miller

  Eye, Long, Blind

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• In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

  Rafael Nadal

  Cinema, Bigs, Deals

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• The camera photographs what's there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cameras

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?

  Susan Orlean

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Home, Feet

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

  Saoirse Ronan

  Taken, Leave Me Alone, Want

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• In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Haunting, Stranger

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• There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sunday, Santa Barbara, Color

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• In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Technology, Space

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• One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

  Patti Smith

  People, Goal, Want

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

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Found

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• As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

  Susan Sontag

  Insecure, Past, Space

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

  Susan Sontag

  Forever, Details, Life Is

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Interesting, Mysterious

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.124, Macmillan

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• So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Photography, Successful

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!'

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  "'Twilight' star Kristen Stewart 'doesn't care about looking perfect'" by Tara Fowler, www.digitalspy.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Looks, Photographer, Ashamed

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

  Emma Watson

  Museums, Long, Lasts

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

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• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  A. N. Wilson

  Liars, Believe, Angel

  A. N. Wilson (1990). “Incline Our Hearts”, Penguin Group USA

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, Humility, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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