Photograph Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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There are no photographs while I'm reloading .
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I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.
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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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Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
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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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When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.
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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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This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
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One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.
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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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You photograph with all your ideology.
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I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.
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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
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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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The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera.
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I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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Photograph each day so we can live forever
