Photograph Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

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.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.