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When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things. — Slim Aarons

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. — Mason Cooley

Now there are elements of our dynamic coming slowly into view, like a photograph in a darkroom. — Caroline Kepnes

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph. — Abbas Kiarostami

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

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. — Ansel Adams

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty. — George A Tice

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are. — Anton Corbijn

Any photographed human being is always a photograph. — Luigi Ghirri

A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination. — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

I prefer a taken to a made photograph. — Wright Morris

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. — Yousuf Karsh

Looking through a photograph I found inside a drawer
I was taken by a photograph of you. — Jackson Browne

I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star. — Alison Jackson

If you are truly successful in capturing the pulse of life, then you can speak of a good photograph. — Rene Burri

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener. — Ruth Bernhard

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

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it. — Stephen Shore

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color — Tablo

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. — George Barr

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades. — Elisabeth Of Wied

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent. — John Taylor Gatto

Lange claimed that every photograph was a self-portrait of the photographer. — Geoff Dyer

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. — Stephen King

Life is a movie; death is a photograph. — Susan Sontag

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph. — Mary Ellen Mark

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once. — Susan Sontag

A photograph is a kind of time machine. — Nicola Yoon

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. — Richard Avedon

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document. — Berenice Abbott

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one. — Ruth Bernhard

Levi was a black-and-white photograph in the dark. All pale skin, gray eyes, streaky hair ... — Rainbow Rowell

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning. — Errol Morris

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture. — Henry Adams

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint. — Nelson Shanks

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

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,
for not removing yourself from the picture just yet. — Meggie Royer

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere. — Henry Wessel Jr.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. — David Nicholls

Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed. — Harold Feinstein

In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online? — Sherry Turkle

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have. — Henry Wessel Jr.

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable. — Brassai

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering. — Jim Goldberg

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection? — Philip K. Dick

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive. — Dieter Roth

A good photograph is one that can't be repeated. — Harry Benson

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me. — Joyce Tenneson

When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right. — Anne Carson

I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl. — Robert Mapplethorpe

I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler — Christian Boltanski

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is. — Nigel Barker

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot. — Nelly Furtado

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality. — David B. Lentz

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. — John Berger

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking. — John Paul Caponigro

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald

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! — Ansel Adams

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love. — Catherine Lacey

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty. — Todd Hido

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. — Garry Winogrand

A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back. — Rene Burri

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. — Diane Arbus

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. — Andy Warhol

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. — Sara Sheridan

What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word. — T.A

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. — Lucy R. Lippard

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. — Sam Abell

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea. — Neil Postman

'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums. — Amy Bloom

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter — Todd Hido

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

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice. — Platon

Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them. — Edwidge Danticat

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.' — Caroline Knapp

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, — Edward Steichen

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. — Andy Warhol

An erotic photograph is like a still from an unfolding story that makes you wonder what has already happened and what is about to happen next. — Chloe Thurlow

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have. — Katy Grannan

When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self. — Minor White

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience. — Shomei Tomatsu

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera — Norman Parkinson

I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored. — Jennifer Aniston

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. — Marc Riboud

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it — Douglas Adams