Photograph Quotes
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You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.
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The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
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You photograph with all your ideology.
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One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
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If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.
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Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.
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A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
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I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
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I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.
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I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
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My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
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I don't consider my photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.
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For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece of work, they know something has gone into it, even if they can't lay their finger on what it is.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.
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People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.
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I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.
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This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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Photograph each day so we can live forever
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It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
