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“Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a message, to sensitize the word to an important cause, to defend certain values.”

Giving Important Eye Certain Values Causes Responsibility Special Messages Give Me Impact Photograph Transmit Public Eye

Author:Princess Diana

“When it comes to the street-art world, there are a lot of people who realize if they go out and put up a few pieces of street art and photograph them really well, even if their locations weren't actually that high-profile or dangerous, with the level of exposure they get from the Internet, with a large audience, they can maintain that rebel cache by having it be theoretically documented street art.”

People Ifs World Wells Art Realizing Levels Audience Pieces Streets Dangerous Internet Photograph Rebel Location Exposure Profile Art World High Profile Street Art Cache

Author:Shepard Fairey

“About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.”

People Fronts Shadow Cameras Photograph Load

Author:David Hockney

“Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?”

I Can Photograph Sculpture

Author:Constantin Brancusi

“I've always been interested in people that you wouldn't see otherwise. If you look back at my books, photographs, and films-and since I'm doing this retrospective I've been forced to look back-the work is always about a small group of people who are somewhat isolated, and who you would never see if I didn't film or photograph them.”

People Ifs Looks Book Film Groups Photograph Isolated Small Groups Retrospective

Author:Larry Clark

“Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.”

Firsts Kids Half Thirds Photograph Pawns

Author:Milla Jovovich

“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.”

World Needs May Shows Attention Demand Happenings Photograph Versions Viewers Posing

Author:Fred Ritchin

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.”

Decision Moral Taken Hundred Twenties Fingers Photograph Faster Snaps Snapshots Moral Decisions

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”

Inspirational Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Accurate Accuracy Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Photo Shoots Camera And Photography Photojournalism Digital Photography Film Photography Photography And Film

Author:Richard Avedon

“I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.”

People Lying Photograph Balconies

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“A photograph is a souvenir of life!”

Photograph Souvenirs

Author:Deborah Smith

“Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.”

Months Couple Glory Research Shots Photograph

Author:Michael Glawogger

“As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.”

People Ifs Knows Men World Way Firsts Said War Whole Millions Military Accounts Died Photograph China Whole World Chinese Hats Civilians Digging Great War Trenches Civilian Deaths

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.”

Thinking Facts Photograph Torture Offensive Disturbing Really Deep

Author:Errol Morris

“I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.”

People Thinking Should Persons Book House Brain Crosses Photograph Lifestyle Collections Sections Website Spine

Author:Phil Elvrum

“All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.”

Ifs Made Different Able Film Courses Language Media Photograph Productions Surface Our Words Lurking Specks Analog Below The Surface

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.”

Differences Space Happened Century Building Painting Photography Method Photograph Landscape 20th Century Highlighting Landscape Painting

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate more mass murders, don't start the story with sirens blaring. Don't have photographs of the killer. Don't make this 24/7 coverage. Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story, not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero. Do localize the story to the affected community and make it as boring as possible in every other market. Because every time we have intense saturation coverage of a mass murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.”

Ifs Want Years Kind Two Stories Body Community Week Media Hero Mass Murder Photograph Boring Intense Affected Killers Can Not Coverage Cnn Sirens Saturation Anti Hero

Author:Park Dietz

“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.”

Way Kind Certain Objects Mines Photography Relation Photograph Delight Features Collections Biographies Preference Supplies Amorous

Author:Roland Barthes

“Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.”

World Black White Strange Photograph Black And White Strange World

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler”

Feels Photographer Photograph

Author:Christian Boltanski

“When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.”

Ideas Eye Mother Asks Cutting Students Relation Photograph

Book:What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

Source: What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

“A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.”

Performances Photograph Sloppy Distressing

Author:Fred Picker

“Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.”

Ifs Enough Action Loses Events Perspective Scene Add Photograph Good Enough Adopted Retrospect

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession. Hence, the laptop has not been hacked, and there has been no leak of personal data such as unreleased music, photographs, designs, videos or any other personal files. The leak today of the unreleased track 'Awesome' was unrelated and completely coincidental.”

Has Beens Stories Today Design West Photograph Track Possession Video Data Stolen Files Laptops Leaks Hacked

Author:Malik Yusef

“Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.”

Photograph Fake

Book:Edward Steichen: the Royal Photographic Society Collection

Source: Edward Steichen: the Royal Photographic Society Collection

“At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.”

Soul Ends Moments Certain Photograph That Moment Projection Exit

Author:Marni Jackson

“I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.”

Thinking Believe Claims Don't Believe Photograph Being True True Or False

Author:Errol Morris

“You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.”

Elements Claims Horse Photograph Sentences Being True Cows Caption True Or False

Author:Errol Morris

“Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph.”

Mean Play Natural Ability Roles Talent Amount Photographer Photograph Actresses Evolve Stylist Natural Talent

Author:Michael Flutie

“I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.”

People Life Humanity Positive Positive Thinking Photography Photograph Life Is Good Life Is Beautiful I Love Life I Love My Life

Author:Horst P. Horst

“If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.”

Ifs Language Right Now Photograph

Author:Lewis Hine

“I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."”

Want Should Looks Havens Photograph

Author:Emmet Gowin

“Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.”

Looks Stupid Photograph

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.”

People Thinking Looks Doe Easy Bits Jokes Photograph

Author:Alison Jackson

“I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.”

Want Imagination Existence Paint Photograph

Author:Man Ray

“Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.”

Trying Mind Kind Sometimes Fronts Cameras Photograph Intuition Significant Exposure

Author:Minor White

“You can't photograph if you're not in love.”

Ifs Photograph

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.”

World Littles Book Used Thirds Photograph Magazines Costumes Exhibitions

Author:Alan Jay Lerner

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.”

Persons Facts Theory Photography Photograph

Author:E. W. Howe

“Most readers look at the photograph first. If you put it in the middle of the page, the reader will start by looking in the middle. Then her eye must go up to read the headline; this doesn't work, because people have a habit of scanning downwards. However, suppose a few readers do read the headline after seeing the photograph below it. After that, you require them to jump down past the photograph which they have already seen. Not bloody likely.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Eye Past Seeing Middle Reader Habit Pages Photograph Bloody Her Eyes Headlines Scanning

Author:David Ogilvy

“Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.”

People Looks Persons Faces Poverty Century Photograph Timeless Homeless Homeless People Dostoyevsky

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.”

Knows Mean Art Photograph California

Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews

“Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.”

Looks May Events Calling Window Photograph Memoir Construction Composition Deliberate Casual Selective Summary

Author:William Zinsser

“Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.”

People Views Talking Style Photograph Point Of View Guts Taking Pictures

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.”

Thinking Want Said Photograph

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.”

Ifs Littles Magic Bird Photograph Disappear Chickens Old Photographs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.”

People Knows Gone Forever Photograph Old Photographs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.”

Photograph Driving Grandfather My Grandfather Carts Donkey Barefoot

Author:Nelly Furtado

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