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Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.
— Andy Grundberg
I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.
— Blake Lively
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.
— Marshall McLuhan
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
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
You photograph with all your ideology.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
— Yousuf Karsh
Looking through a photograph I found inside a drawerI 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
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
— Stephen Shore
I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but ...
— Jacques Derrida
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
— Edward Weston
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
— Jock Sturges
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
— Imogen Cunningham
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
— Jeremy Hardy
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.
— Jackie Cooper
Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
— Platon
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 more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad
— David Ogilvy
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else.
— Andre Kertesz
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 want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
— William Eggleston
All photographs are self-portraits.
— Minor White
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
My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.
— Penelope Lively
Every photograph is a fake from start to finish,
— Edward Steichen
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
There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
— Garry Winogrand
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
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
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
— Wynn Bullock
Old photograph of his father, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew,
— J.K. Rowling
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
— Robert Doisneau
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.
— Sloane Crosley
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
— Andy Warhol
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
— Duane Michals
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.
— Lucy R. Lippard
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
— Penelope Lively
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
— Ansel Adams
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
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
— Edmundo Desnoes
Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.
— John Paul Caponigro
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
A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.
— David B. Lentz
My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.
— Nikki S. Lee
The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
— David Burnett
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
Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.
— Annie Leibovitz
I paint when I cannot photograph.
— Man Ray
My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.
— Destin Sparks
And I'd be damned if I let the first photograph of me in ten years be taken on fucking Amtrak. I mean, the light alone.
— Elizabeth Little
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
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
— Shomei Tomatsu
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
— Garry Winogrand
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
