200 Photograph Quotes for You to Enjoy

I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope. Cornelia Parker

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. Damian Loeb

Best Nice Photograph Beat Printer Goal Reproduce Really

If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that. Daniel Portman

I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine. Dave Rubin

Government Religion Me Gay You Man Forcing Christian Think Mine Married Photograph Photographer Wedding Wrong Cater Baker Force Order Against Might Decorate Act Conscience Florist Violate Christians Appreciate

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. David Bailey

You Kind Photograph Invisible Longer Children Lens Use

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. David Bailey

Character You Mood Photograph Never Know Because Reveal Chekhov Getting Depends Want Hard Who Film Actor Play

War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it. David Douglas Duncan

War You Business Photography Earthquake Everywhere Easiest Photograph Hurricane Something Miss Like Know How Go Camera Subjects Close Train Get Just Middle Being Crash Your Works Lucky

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough. David Hockney

Good Enough Photograph Real

The camera can photograph thought. Dirk Bogarde

Thought Photograph Camera

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange

Eyes Own Nothing Our Tell Photograph See More Perhaps Another How Permit Proves Province Than Which While Little Us

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque. Dorothea Lange

Enough Photograph Picturesque Obviously

I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the drawings they wanted me to photograph of her up there, but she didn't really care for them that much, and ultimately they weren't even used. Douglas Kirkland

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them. Douglas Kirkland

People Photograph Like Talk Obviously Them

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. Duane Michals

Life Work Death Myself Nature Me My Life Nothing Sleeping State Corpse Photograph Dream Tells Photographers Find Temporal About Someone Facts Itself Very Want Interested Transient Event Thing Things

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. Duane Michals

Reality Nothing Photograph

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like. Duane Michals

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Duane Michals

Great Photography Writing Words Worth Birds Photograph Thousand Photographers Thousand Words Photographs Cliche Because Got Lot Flak Anyway Originally

I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me. Elton John

Buy Art Day Great Me Great Art Enough Photograph Wealthy Photographs Able Someone Rather Inspires Never Picasso Day-To-Day Dead Heard Wall Want Really Lucky

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