Photograph Quotes
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When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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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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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
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The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.
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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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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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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.
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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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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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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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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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I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.
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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 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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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
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I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.
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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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The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
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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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Photograph each day so we can live forever
