Photograph Quotes

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

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.

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

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?'

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

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.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.