Photographs Quotes

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

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 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.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.