Photograph Quotes
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However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
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I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
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It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed
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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.
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I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.
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My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
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I have to photograph where I am.
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
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I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
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I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.
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You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can be photographed and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.
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Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing you'll hear is me climbing up your stairs in a pair of night vision goggles I bought in the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I'll pick the lock to the master room door, take a picture of you in bed with the Nogueira brothers working on your 'jiu-jitsu'. I'll take said quote unquote photograph, post it at dorksfrombrazil.com, password - not required, username - not required. That, Wanderlei, is how you threaten someone. Dummy.
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Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
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A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.
