Photograph Quotes - page 11

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. (Richard Avedon)
Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph. View quote
Richard Avedon
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture? View quote
Richard Avedon
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again. View quote
Richard Avedon
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. View quote
Sloane Crosley
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture. View quote
Sam Abell
In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. View quote
Sam Abell
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. View quote
Stephen Sprouse
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. View quote
Stephen Sprouse
Only photograph what you love. View quote
Tim Walker
Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject. (Tim Walker)
I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. View quote
Terry Gross
When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. View quote
Wynn Bullock
'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that. View quote
Will Hobbs
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. View quote
William Eggleston
A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back. View quote
Rene Burri
I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' View quote
Kristen Stewart
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides. View quote
Jacques Derrida
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Evans wanted his photographs to be "literate, authoritative, transcendent." The moral universe of the 1930s being no longer ours, these adjectives are barely creditable today. Nobody demands that photography be literate. Nobody can imagine how it could be authoritative. Nobody understands how anything, least of all a photograph, could be transcendent. View quote
Susan Sontag
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. (Susan Sontag)
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask. View quote
Susan Sontag
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. View quote
David Hockney
It is not a recognisable scene [his two paintings 'Dances at the spring', 1912 - Picabia painted the motion and the excitement of a peasant dance while he was on his honeymoon in the countryside of Italy; one version is lost]. There is no dancer, no spring, no light, no perspective, nothing other than the visible clue of the sentiments I am trying to express... I would draw your attention to a song of colours, which will bring out for others the joyful sensations and feelings inspired in me on those summer days when I found myself somewhere in the country near the Italian border, where there was a spring in a wonderful garden. A photograph of that spring and that garden would in now way look like my painting 'Dance at a spring' I was shown for the first time at the w:Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1912. View quote
Francis Picabia
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them. View quote
Eric Cantona