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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
— David LaChapelle
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
— Dennis Oppenheim
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
— Alicia Keys
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture ...
— Dawoud Bey
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
— Joel Sternfeld
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
— Roger Ballen
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.
— Grant Mudford
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
— David Sylvester
To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
— William Dobell
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.
— Bill Jay
You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.
— Brendan Coyle
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.
— Saul Leiter
I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.
— Mary Ellen Mark
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
— Jerry Saltz
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
— Robert Frank
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
— George A Tice
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.
— Evangeline Lilly
Photographs speak to me, and I obey.
— Ruth Bernhard
I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.
— Hark Herald Sarmiento
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
— Robert Breault
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
— Jock Sturges
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything,
— Thomas Struth
Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
— Susan Sontag
Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.
— Candace Bushnell
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
— Stephen Chbosky
I used to take photographs just to remember people.
— Gus Van Sant
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.
— Walter Benjamin
I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.
— Cecil Beaton
If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.
— Joel-Peter Witkin
A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera - and bills to pay.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
— Ruth Bernhard
If I'm finally taking a trip into the unknown; there ought to be photographs to document this momentous event.
— Kristin Hannah
Their intensive 1 -day nature photography instructional seminars. Both love to teach others how to make their own fine photographs.
— Anonymous
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
— Christian Metz
No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
— Anna Held
Photographs is not the same as just name, is more living. Otherwise, why save photographs? (Marijana to Mr Rayment)
— J.M. Coetzee
The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?
— T.A
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
— Alfred Stieglitz
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
— Ralph Eugene Meatyard
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
— Aleksandar Hemon
... photographs on a wall were there for people to see and to examine if interested; an album is a different thing ...
— Alexander McCall Smith
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
— John Hodgman
I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."
— Emmet Gowin
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
— Duane Michals
I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.
— Twyla Tharp
I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.
— Orlan
The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.
— Jan Dibbets
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
— Helmut Newton
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
— Keith Carter
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.
— John Pfahl
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
— Jose Gonzalez
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
— Kate Morton
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
— Peter Beard
When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
— Sam Abell
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
— Orlando Bloom
Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!
— Avijeet Das
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
— Marla Maples
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
— Jock Sturges
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
— Joel-Peter Witkin
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.
— Eliot Porter
When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
— Sienna Miller
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.
— Chris Jordan
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
— Martin Parr
If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others.
— Saul Leiter
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
— Irving Penn
One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.
— Jenna McCarthy
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
— Arthur Erickson
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
— Imogen Cunningham
I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
— Peter Saul
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
— Ruth Bernhard
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
— Mitchell Baker