Photograph Quotes - Page 37

• A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.

  Richard Kalvar

  Reality, Two, Silence

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• Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.

  Martin Parr

  Hurt, Thinking, Vulnerability

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• Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Inspiration, Two

  Andreas Feininger (1953). “Feininger on Photography”

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• With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

  David Hockney

  Photography, War, Editing

  "'Photography is Crumbling'". Interview with Martin Gayford, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2004.

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• The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Objects, Consequence

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Subliminal, Seeing

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• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

  Fred Hoyle

  Powerful, Taken, Ideas

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• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Fall, Men, Might

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• I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Moving, Looks, Body

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• Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Anxiety, Losing

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

  Sarah Kay

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• There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

  Sterling Hayden

  Men, Actors, Want

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

  Gerhard Richter

  Animal, Reality, Tree

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now,
  George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Believe, People

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• I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

  Ansel Adams

  Found Objects, Doubt, World

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• People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

  Andre Kertesz

  Mean, People, Movement

  André Kertész, J. Paul Getty Museum (1994). “André Kertész: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.44, Getty Publications

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• Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Liars, Lying

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• I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.

  Robert Doisneau

  Finishing It, Giving, Advice

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• I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

  David LaChapelle

  Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

  Francesco Clemente

  Giving, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

  David Sylvester

  Stars, Renaissance, Warhol

  David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage

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• I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

  A. R. Rahman

  Country, Inspiration, Giving

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• Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

  Meggie Royer

  Life Is

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• Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.

  Collier Schorr

  Girl, Mean, Boys

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