Yousuf Karsh Quotes

I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

Yousuf Karsh

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• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Spirits

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Hollywood
  • Photograph

• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • See
  • Photograph
  • Details

• I hate having my photograph taken.

  

  E. L. James
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Photograph

• The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Man

• Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Moon

• People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Language
  • Ends
  • Photograph

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Said
  • Transformation
  • Photograph

• There is no special way a photograph should look.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Special

• For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do with the contest between content and form.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Interesting
  • Kind
  • Problem

• We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • World
  • Risk

• But before all else a work of art is the creation of love. Love for the subject first and for the medium second. Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create, underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the unfinished product that is presented to the world. Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged. It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Emotion
  • Love Is
  • Photograph

• For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Soul
  • Presence
  • Constant

• It's definitely a possibility and something that I am currently trying to look into. Hopefully the skills competition will open up more avenues for me and I can make more contacts out there.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Competition
  • Skills
  • Hopefully

• Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Light

• I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Photograph
  • Spirits
  • Peoples