200 Photograph Quotes for You to Enjoy

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams

Good Photograph Knowing Where Stand

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams

Photograph Seldom Looked

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. Elliott Erwitt

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce

Art Picture Sun Photograph Instruction Without Painted

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams

Words Photograph True Contained Nor Explained Need

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. Annie Leibovitz

Say Photograph Someone Like Know Want Anyone Them Really Means

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead

Me Photograph Temple Through Shirley Should Used

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals. Alan Rickman

Home Freedom Me You Job Down Astaire Musicals Kind Photograph Fred Fred Astaire See About Crossed General Inspiring Knees Reminder Bleeding Reminds Feet Him Because Were His End Just Being Rehearsals Watch

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. Duane Michals

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. Markus Wolf

Overcome Enormous Else Papers Photograph Someone Give Take Excited Obstacle Return Without Person Any Getting While Them Scruples Away

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Ray Bradbury

People Gone Side Saw Photograph Shadows Remained Had House Were Hiroshima Wall Intensity Burned After Who Lived Bomb Bombed

Each time I arrived in a new city, I'd get lost in the streets and photograph everything that looked interesting, taking nearly a thousand photographs every day. After each day of shooting, I'd select 30 or 40 of my favorite photographs and post them on Facebook. I named the albums after my first impression of each city. Brandon Stanton

Time Day Facebook Every Day Post First Lost Every Everything Favorite Photograph Thousand City Photographs Select Taking New Named First Impression Looked Arrived Impression Get Shooting After Interesting Them Each Each Day Each Time Nearly Streets Albums

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see. Charles Bukowski

Work Words Photograph See Only Writer

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great Reality Joy Breath Photograph Physical Faculties Mastering Becomes Intellectual Precise Hold Converge Fleeting Moment Capture Image

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. J. G. Ballard

Beautiful Women Looking Painting Marlin Destroyed Photograph Mysterious Never Never Stop Know Beautiful Women Make Blitz Surrealist Huge Dominated Commissioned Artist Stop Which Paul Room Original Violation Copy

I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I'm not embarrassed about it. I'm proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, 'What an actress! What a faker!' Kristen Stewart

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. Saul Leiter

Me Photograph Window More Covered Than Person Famous Famous Person Interests

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag

Family Photograph About Remains Generally Often Extended Extended Family Album

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function. Alison Jackson

Work Hope Art Mind Down Photograph Exactly Exactly The Same Primary Opens Advertising Makes Does Conclusive Least Up Art Work Sells Same Closes Product Your Using Function Things

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary. Alison Moyet

Saying History You People Ugly Walls Big Clothes Stage Considerably Bit Unnecessary Photograph Threw Faces Like Am Diaries Than Richer Working Whole Away Albums Rubbing

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