Photograph Quotes

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

The camera can photograph thought.

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.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar.

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.

It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't be able to see anything.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.