154 Photographs Quotes for You to Enjoy

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams

Silence Words Focus Become Photographs Shall Unclear Content Inadequate Images

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. Ellen DeGeneres

Beautiful Mom You Animal People Mother Walls Think Say Photographs Heads Attractive Because Always Go Ask Why Her Deer

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more. Anne Hathaway

Time Good Day Be Happy Struggle Happy Yourself Pressure Be Yourself Long Long Time Think Gave Everyone Find Photographs Some About More Long Time Ago Perfection Look Concept Lot Up Very Just Where Anymore Wants Interesting

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams

Art People Believe Everybody Photographs Trusts Paintings

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

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. Mason Cooley

Art People Believe Photographs True Cannot Therefore

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie. Barbara Kruger

Truth Learning Lie World Finally Indeed Crisis Has-Been Photographs Seeing Put Longer Bloated Been Very Notion Believing Images

Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning. Ben Shapiro

Character Man Thug Enemies Out Hunting Running Find Photographs Horses Poisoning Putin Wrong Massive Himself Tigers His End Soviet Fiction Stages Former Themselves Radioactive Riding

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

It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion. Dayananda Saraswati

God Great Before Other Sight Distortion Photographs Kinds Proper Take Put Remembrance Pictures Make His Them Persons Us Images

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. Jerry Saltz

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it. Joan Collins

Beautiful Time Good Day Me Every Day Old Thought Power Wish Looking Beauty Young Every Photographs See Never Had Studio Good-Looking Particularly Known Because Got How Woke Up Hit Just Realise Hollywood Old Photographs Lucky Film

Occasionally I get fed up, going to visit a factory, when I am being shown around by the chairman, who clearly hasn't got a clue, and I try to get hold of the factory manager, but I can't because the chairman wants to make sure he's the one in all the photographs. Prince Philip

Try Visit Photographs Fed Fed Up Factory He Clearly Make Occasionally Sure Because Around Got Am Up Get Manager Going Being Hold Wants Clue Who Shown Chairman

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag

Life Significant Details Photographs Forever Fixed Flash Illuminated

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. A. N. Wilson

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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why. Adele

Bathroom Tell Photographs Records Put Mortified Stuff Know Always Tradition American Gold Them Your England Awards Why

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious. Aidan Gillen

Me Find Photographs Self-Conscious Make Still Quite

The Narrator of 'A Sport and a Pastime' is an American photographer living in a borrowed house in what he calls 'the real France,' Autun, a small town where he hopes to take some career-changing photographs in the spirit of Atget. Alexander Chee

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs. Alfred Stieglitz

Life Vision Try Find Photographs Form

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel. Anne-Marie Duff

Achievement Confidence School Become Gone Think Desperately Back Would Would-Be Photographs Totally Wee Write Writer Feel Look Always Still Ultimate Wanted Really Novel Shrinking Away Ever Socially Shy

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. Anthony Holden

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work. Anton Corbijn

Work Made Photographs Take Never Real Lot Commercial Done Order Happen Really Paid Used Things

My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage. Asif Kapadia

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. Barbara Cook

Time Remember Thought Back Photographs Look Attractive Very

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Barbara Demick

You People Darkness Light East Photographs See Area Look Democratic Korea Curiously Lacking Republic Far Far East Large Satellite Night

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