Photograph Quotes

• My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Way
  • Photograph
  • Seeing

• All photographs are self-portraits.

  

  Minor White
  • Photograph
  • Portraits

• Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Reason
  • Language
  • Complicated

• All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Language

• I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Heart
  • Language
  • Photograph

• There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Girl
  • Suffering
  • Pictures

• Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Feel
  • Photograph

• Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Memories
  • Photograph

• Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place and time keeps moving on. A photograph might be a moment in time preserved, but the world continues to change around it.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Change
  • Photograph
  • Moving On

• There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Nature
  • Word
  • Chaos

• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Feels
  • Photograph

• There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Art
  • Film
  • Painting

• Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

  

  Tino Sehgal
  • Photograph
  • Dimensions

• The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl is really good-looking, but a girl can be not super good-looking and it'd still be a really good photograph. I ask people to send some photos of where they live if that's where I'm shooting. I go for shabby places over too-nice places, because most of these girls are going to look better if they're not made to look rich.

  

  Richard Kern
  • People
  • Helping
  • Photograph

• I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Pictures
  • Equivalent
  • Verbalized

• It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Easy

• A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photograph
  • Accident
  • Concept

• I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Meaning
  • Photograph
  • Don't Believe

• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photograph

• Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. Heroism in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Novel
  • Subject
  • Heroism

• I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Photograph

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