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I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.
— Horst P. Horst
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Photographs are facts, but not necessarily true ... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
— Ai Weiwei
I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.
— Lauren Oliver
A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
— Emily St. John Mandel
Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
— Joel Sternfeld
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.
— Douglas McCulloh
I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb.
— Richard Elman
I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
— Barbara Cook
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
— David Sylvester
I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.
— Alex Colville
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
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
When I flick through a family album, I see that people don't die, they just become photographs
— S.E. Sever
Photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
— Lee Friedlander
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)
— Donald Rumsfeld
I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.
— Stephen Chbosky
Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
— Constantin Brancusi
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.
— Kirstie Alley
When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.
— Gillian Wearing
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
Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.
— Chris Mentillo
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
I absolutely forbade all public photographs of myself. I like photography, I don't have anything against it, but ...
— Jacques Derrida
The sights I have just seen [at Buchenwald] are so unbelievable that I don't think I'll believe them myself until I've seen the photographs ...
— Margaret Bourke-White
I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.
— Michael Heizer
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
People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
— David LaChapelle
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
— Susan Sontag
Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.
— Catherine Opie
There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
— Garry Winogrand
I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.
— Eddie Izzard
My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.
— Nikki S. Lee
I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.
— Thomas Ruff
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
— Joel-Peter Witkin
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.
— Herb Ritts
But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.
— Jock Sturges
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
— Martin Parr
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.
— Stephen Chbosky
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
— Garry Winogrand
Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together.
— Lauren Oliver
Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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
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
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
— Peter Saul
The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
— David Burnett
Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally ... All great photographs today are snapshots.
— Martin Munkacsi
The best photographs are made by the best people.
— Morley Baer
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
Funny, that no one had ever asked what had happened to the dishes, the scraps, the crumbs in the photographs, on the poster.
— Anna Quindlen
The camera photographs what's there.
— Jack Nicholson
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
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
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
When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every event creates a memory in the heart; photographs remind and reinforce that memory in the future,
— Debasish Mridha
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
— Kate Morton
All photographs are self-portraits.
— Minor White
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
— Peter Beard
My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.
— Andres Iniesta
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...
— Leni Riefenstahl
But lyrics are not proof; photographs are.
— Lemony Snicket
Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.
— Sachin Kundalkar
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
— Keith Carter
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
My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.
— Destin Sparks
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
All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
— Johnny Vander Meer
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
In photographs of us together, she is always looking at the camera, and I am always looking at her.
— Jandy Nelson
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.
— Jeremy Hardy
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
...and thinking how the first scent of autumn is like coming across a lost album of childhood photographs.
— Jonathan Hull
I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler
— Christian Boltanski
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
— Edmundo Desnoes