Photograph Quotes - page 3

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond. (Chris Hondros)
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. View quote
David Amram
The camera can photograph thought. View quote
Dirk Bogarde
Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible! View quote
Dwight Schultz
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. View quote
Daniel Clowes
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you. View quote
Frans Lanting
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. View quote
Fay Godwin
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. View quote
Fay Godwin
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. View quote
Felicity Kendal
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. View quote
Giles Duley
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. (Galen Rowell)
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. View quote
Galen Rowell
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. View quote
J. Carter Brown
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. View quote
Janet Malcolm
I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasnt necessarily intending to read. View quote
Jill Abramson
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. View quote
Jock Sturges
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. View quote
Jock Sturges
I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time. View quote
Jock Sturges
The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative. View quote
Jock Sturges
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. View quote
Jackie Cooper
There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent. (John Sexton)
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. View quote
John Sexton
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! View quote
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. View quote
Julia Margaret Cameron
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. View quote
Ken Burns