Photograph Quotes - Page 8

• There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Two, Humanity

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  "New York to Nova Scotia".

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Maturity, Order

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• I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

  Gilles Peress

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Photography, Today

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.25, Macmillan

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• In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Eye, Practice

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• They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Photography, Temples, Used

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)

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• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Powerful, Eye

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• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  Ken Burns

  Photography, Drama, People

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• Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Photographer, Deny

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  Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Creativity, Keys

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• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  Garry Winogrand

  Different, Interest

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Men, Vision

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• It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Humanness Is, People

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• 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.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Intellect, Find Me

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• The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

  Susan Sontag

  Loyalty, Careers, Community

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.39, Macmillan

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• I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when we were browsing through the shops there were images that attracted me. These are all historical images because these days they're all digital. They don't exist anymore.

  Thomas Ruff

  Long, Historical, Different

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  My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Dream, Inspiration, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspirational, Firsts, Worst

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• I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Brother, Children, Cameras

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• The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get a really strong photograph.

  Andy Summers

  Photography, Strong, People

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• I like to put a single photograph in different contexts, to see how it takes on other meanings, how being locked in a new dialogue exposes another potential. It's like dating other people in order to get to know yourself.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  People, Dating, Different

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• 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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