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“...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant of, willing or unwilling depending on his degree of awakeness. The photograph, then, is a message more than a mirror, and the mans a messenger who happens to be a photographer.”

Men Moments Happens Force Vision Greater Willing He Man Degrees Messages Tools Mirrors Photographer Photograph Insight Servant Revelations Unwilling Messengers Rare Moments

Author:Minor White

“As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.”

Paint Photograph Bunch Host

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes as sensitive as radar, responsive to the life of the streets... If I were to give it words, I would say: "I have no choice... I have to shoot this... I can't leave this place for another's eyes... I have to shoot it... I have no choice." An endless, murmuring refrain.”

Ifs Way Giving I Can States Body Eye Choices Streets Photograph Endless Cells My Way Sensitive Avenues Refrain Radar Weaving Murmuring

Author:Daido Moriyama

“No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.”

Needs Jobs Lying Certain Individual Wonderful Photography Photographer Photograph Mediums Truthful Currency Convincing

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.”

Moments School Scene Photographer Incredibles Photograph I Realized Magazines Capture Punk Baltimore Montessori Preschool Maryland

Author:Jeff Vespa

“The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.”

Writing Process Imagine Scene Photograph Permanent Writing Process Casting

Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.”

Thinking World Looks Serious Photographer Photograph Gaps

Author:Stephen Shore

“There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by the camera, that you can't use the limitations or the transformation to have an observation that is a very subtle perception of the world.”

Ifs World Mean Use Perception Transformation Cameras Photograph Observation Limitation Subtle Transformed Perception Of The World

Author:Stephen Shore

“I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.”

Realizing Perception Photograph

Author:Stephen Shore

“My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.”

People Ifs Knows Way Firsts Persons Sometimes Character Risk Photograph Disappointment My Way Risk It Character Of A Person

Author:Anton Corbijn

“This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.”

Doe Real Wish Right Now Cameras Photographer Photograph

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.”

Knows Firsts Moments Water Consciousness Photograph Glasses Glances Delay Tablets

Book:Known and Strange Things

Source: Known and Strange Things

“Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.”

Hard Reason Cat Notes Mere Photograph Breathing Exposure Fur Blur Instantaneous

Author:Carl Van Vechten

“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.”

Men Made Process Differences Attitude Taken Streets He Man Painting Skills Photography Photograph Invention Traditional Schemes Selection Synthesis

Author:John Szarkowski

“If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.”

Ifs Photograph Plenty

Author:Todd Hido

“The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.”

Purpose Felt Photograph

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.”

“My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity.”

Wealth Creativity Photograph Quantity

Author:Destin Sparks

“I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.”

Trying Persons Photograph Visible

Author:Duane Michals

“A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.”

Photograph Sentimental Erotic

Author:Bill Brandt

“For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.”

Photograph Criteria Unforgettable

Author:Brassai

“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.”

Knows Years I Can Ideas Ends Happens Wanted Purpose Lost Interest Loses Happened Changed My Friends Down And Cameras Photograph Quitting Innocent Repeats Purity Realism

Author:Larry Clark

“Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.”

Photograph Deceptive

Author:Franz Kafka

“I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.”

Taken Photograph

Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“People ask me questions like, "Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you're like when you walk down the street?" It's like, "Of course not." It's such a silly question - it's like being theatrical is a crime.”

People Looks Courses Asks Walks Streets Crime Photograph Silly Ask Me Theatrical

Author:Bjork

“A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.”

Use News Photograph Stealing Consumed

Author:Nate Lowman

“The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.”

People Way Want Mass Photograph Rationalize

Author:Mary Mattingly

“You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.”

Form Mass Bigger Photograph Productions Thumbs Mass Production

Author:Mary Mattingly

“I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.”

Thinking Way Firsts Action Photograph

Book:Andy Warhol: the late work

Source: Andy Warhol: the late work

“I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.”

Knows Know How Internet Photograph Naked

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.”

Ifs Men Trying Dog Pure Response Photographer Photograph Following Kicks Bites Eerie Physical Things

Author:Chris Martin

“Dr. Maggie DiNome was given the Duke Award for her tireless efforts and stellar contributions to the eradication of cancer. But unfortunately my weight seems much more important to some of you. While I will admit the dress didn't photograph as well as it did in my kitchen, I will also admit I felt very pretty. In fact, I feel beautiful.”

Feels Wells Important Facts Seems Beautiful Given Felt Effort Weight Dresses Photograph Cancer Kitchen Contribution Awards Drs Dukes Maggie Feeling Beautiful Stellar

Author:Pink

“It's quite an experience to have filming done in your house. When they come in, they photograph every piece of furniture and where it is so they can get them back exactly where you had them. You'd never know they'd been here.”

Knows Done House Pieces Photograph Furniture

Author:Doris Day

“The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.”

“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.”

Wish Teach Photography Photograph Make A Wish

Author:George A Tice

“My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.”

Photograph Accidents Wander Favourite Favourite Things Happy Accidents

Author:Rufus Sewell

“There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.”

Photograph Pretty Woman

Book:Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

“I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.”

Thinking Way School Beautiful Used Girl High School Photograph Familiar Hanging Out Fascinated Graduates Graduate School

Author:Brian De Palma

“I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me.”

World Path Wife Hollywood Silent Photograph My Wife Actresses Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of a way to express myself than acting is, by far.”

Way Character Acting Creating Photograph

Author:Alexandra Breckenridge

“Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.”

Different Five Stupid Amount Photograph Passports

Author:Sally Phillips

“My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.”

Bigs Century Photography Photograph Hobbies 19th Century

Author:Brian May

“Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore, all photographs lie in one way or another.”

Way Different Reality Lying Photograph One Way Different Ways

Author:John Szarkowski

“I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)”

People Soul Self Care My Own Photograph Appearance My Soul Portraits Self Portrait

Author:August Strindberg

“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.”

Men Giving Faces Wise Stupid Expression Fool Photograph Hunger Innocence Thirst Outlaw Wretchedness Hunger And Thirst Ruffian

Author:Mark Twain

“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”

Persons Past Lines Existence Couple Evidence Photograph Forgotten Print Comrade Julius Forgery

Author:George Orwell

“A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.”

Offers Photograph Glimpse Abyss

Author:John Updike

“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.”

Mean Made Hands Light Film Artist Painting Evidence Shadow Photograph Visuals Representation Convincing Flattering

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.”

People Art Real Fine Increase Photograph Museums Reverence Diminish Exposure Gallery Fine Arts Reproduction

Author:Bill Gates

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