Best Photograph Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 38

“The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.”

People Real Life Is Fighting Space Pleasure Streets Photograph Daily Life Truth Of Life Time And Space Real Truth

Author:Don McCullin

“I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace.”

Men Want Children Has Beens Able Suffering Turns Walks Practice Dying Flower Gun Tired Guilt Misery Response Photograph Landscape Another Man Starvation

Author:Don McCullin

“Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.”

Looks Moments Winning Surprise Photograph Precaution

Author:Jacques Derrida

“One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.”

Trying Hard Eye Challenges Wall Photography Photograph China Naked Naked Eyes Great Wall Great Wall Of China

Author:Leroy Chiao

“Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs”

Art Matter Seeing Photography Photograph Where You Are Stopping

Author:Art Wolfe

“I hate being the subject of photographs.”

Hate Subjects I Hate Photograph

Author:Richard Griffiths

“To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.”

Real Cases Pages Photographer Photograph Being Real

Book:Naked city

Source: Naked city

“Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.”

Knows Years May Made Stills Real Light Eye Black White Objects Illusion Transformation Photograph Intuition Celebrate Motivated Black And White Responding Radiance

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”

Years Firsts War Shows Seems Greater Four Terrible Photograph Scary Islands Damage Bombs Four Years Frightening Testing Eden Pacific Atomic Bomb Desolation Atomic War

Author:Wilfred Burchett

“I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!”

People Should Hands Kids Actors Arms Prove Photograph Restaurants Owners

Author:Josh Hartnett

“So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.”

Thinking Way Trying Made Social Fashion Conscious Photograph Chicago Social Service

Author:Gordon Parks

“One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.”

Giving Persons Return Paper Overcoming Photograph Obstacles Excited Enormous Papers Scruples

Author:Markus Wolf

“I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.”

States Dream Example Photograph Wildlife

Author:Nigel Dennis

“The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.”

Facts Age Father Humorous Photograph Possession Eggs Homicidal Faltering

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.”

Facts Body Example Victim Photograph Jew Museums Prisoner Camps Holocaust Memorial Visiting Marginalization Buchenwald Holocaust Memorial

Book:Lying About Hitler

Source: Lying About Hitler

“Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.”

Persons Memories Window Remains Photograph Shops Exposed Our Memories Exhibits

Book:Within a Budding Grove

Source: Within a Budding Grove

“For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.”

Persons Stories Memories Emotion Photograph Insight Mood

Author:Robert Keith Leavitt

“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.”

Might Memories Boys Genius Photograph Dust Charm Rejects Cathedrals Chewing Hunk Melons Choosy

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.”

Years Children Littles Moments Running Beautiful Film Dies Three Watches Minutes Special Effects Flower Birth Quiet Ten Bigger Extraordinary Photograph Score Chairs Decay Special Effects

Author:Clive Barker

“My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.”

Inspirational Looks Justice Photograph Like Me

Author:Phyllis Diller

“If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.”

People Ifs Looks Humanity History Generations Crime Photograph Ashamed Future Generation Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.”

Ifs Writing Mean Reader Photograph

Author:Stephen King

“I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.”

Thinking Photograph Obvious Symbolic

Book:Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979

Source: Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979

“My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.”

My Family India Army Dresses Photograph Grandfather Victorian Great Grandfather

Author:Georgina Chapman

“The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.”

Humans Feelings Photograph Motivated

Author:David Burnett

“A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever taking personal photographs. Others, audaciously and arrogantly and courageously discharge their most private feelings through photography. Trouble is, sometimes it all adds up to baloney.”

Sometimes Feelings Enjoy Careers Trouble Worst Photography Add Photographer Photograph Distinguished Deep Inside Discharge Best Picture Baloney

Author:Burk Uzzle

“Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures.”

“If I feel confident wearing something, I think it translates in photographs. It changes my demeanor and posture.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Photograph Translate Posture Demeanor

Author:Nina Dobrev

“All photography is propaganda.”

Photography Photograph Propaganda

Author:Martin Parr

“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women”

Seeing Fashion Photograph Imitation

Book:The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

“It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not just Sabzian—many other people started pretending they were me! One of them actually got married while pretending he was me! My face became publicly recognizable soon after I decided to have a few photographs of me available in public to prevent these sorts of identity thefts. It is really pathetic, if you think of it. Filmmakers and filmmaking is so popular in Iran because all other forms of expression have been denied to people.”

“A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the reader through Welty's long, productive writing career and introduces her family and friends along the way. The book's very readable text, its lovely use of Welty quotes, and its excellent photographs make the work a treasure. This intimate look at Eudora Welty is a welcome addition for her readers.”

“The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.”

Men Ideas Ends Eye Activity Photograph Naked Homosexual Simulate Naked Eyes Gis

Author:Seymour Hersh

“For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world”

People World Giving Years Children Stills I Can Important Real Dream Inspiration Beautiful Romance Used Findings Aspect Years Ago Photograph Digital Digital World

Author:Grace Coddington

“There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world.”

“For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.”

Should Body Beautiful Emotion Quality Photography Photographer Photograph Meaningful Sensuality Sensual Erotic

Author:Wynn Bullock

“Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.”

“Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future”

Want Past Events Photograph Drag Frustrating Diaries Entry Evoke Documentation Diary Entries

Author:Nobuyoshi Araki

“No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.”

Thinking Want Trying Mind Form Views Situation Opinion Photograph Point Of View Objectives Observers Open Mind Edits Selective

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.”

World Littles Bits Walks Numbers Study Taken Modern Cold Reader Offers Little Bit Infinite Photograph Bookstores Modern Day

Author:Nicole Krauss

“To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.”

World Mean Art Seems Eye Individual Differences Photography Fundamentals Notes Photographer Photograph Objectives Logical Documents Angle Extensions Separating Recorders Note Taking

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.”

Views Photography Photograph Viewers

Author:Fay Godwin

“Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.”

World Imagine Photography Photographer Photograph

Author:Berenice Abbott

“Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.”

Ifs Suicide Photograph Committed Favourite Desks

Author:Roddy Doyle

“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.”

Want Real Order Subjects Essence Patient Photograph Being Real Be Patient

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.”

Want Wanted Answers Lessons Prove Photograph Prove To Me

Author:Lisette Model

“The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.”

Photography Cameras Instruments Photographer Photograph Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Great Photography Camera And Photography Inspiring Photography

Author:Eve Arnold

“Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me”

Photograph

Author:Duane Michals

“l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.”

Wish Paint Photograph

Author:Man Ray

“I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.”

Thinking Way Believe Real Views Mistake Photograph Point Of View Magazines

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

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