Photograph Quotes - Page 36

• 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.

  Nan Goldin

  Memories, Important, Has Beens

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• I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

  Erwin Blumenfeld

  Soul, Likes, Photographer

  "Erwin Blumenfeld’s Studio" by Genevieve Fussell, www.newyorker.com. September 15, 2014.

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• If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph.

  Steve McCurry

  Want, Photographer, Ifs

  "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future.
  Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.

  Ilan Stavans

  Memories, Father, Men

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• Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

  Edouard Boubat

  Differences, Buttons, Occupation

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• There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

  Edouard Boubat

  Beautiful, Girl, Flower

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• I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Giving, Want

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• Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Photography, Powerful, Mean

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• There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Moments, Reason, Mood

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• I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

  Barbara Cook

  Looks, Remember, Attractive

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• I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Doubt

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• If they want a photograph, then just take it.

  Keith Emerson

  Photography, Want, Ifs

  "Harris Online", www.harrisonline.com. October 4, 1997.

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• I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

  Shirley Knight

  Annie, Individual

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• There are many photographs which are full of life but
  which are confusing and difficult to remember.
  It is the force of an image which matters.

  Brassai

  Confusing, Matter, Remember

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• Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

  Lewis Hine

  Liars, Lying, May

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• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Taken, Emotional

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Women, Citizens

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Rain, Taken

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• Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Photographer, Moments

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• If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

  Andre Kertesz

  Beautiful, Photography, Writing

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• There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Giving, Events

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• I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

  Ansel Adams

  Would Be, Levels, Saws

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• My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Men, Upset, Battle

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Eye, Etching, Looks

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• My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Philosophy

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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