Photograph Quotes

• I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Picture
  • Interest
  • Photography

• [The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Model
  • Virtue
  • Share

• I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Photography

• 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.

  

  Paul Strand
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Painting

• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Good
  • Camera
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

• A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photograph
  • Depends

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

  

  Weegee
  • Famous
  • Summer
  • Strange

• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Day
  • Camera

• The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Domination

• I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Interesting

• I told myself I'd do well by using the experience I gained during my seven years as Big Bang. In my mind, the executive producer is the person that is in charge of everything up to the point that the album comes out. So not just the music but also the music video, album artwork, photographs, and even the material the album itself would be made out of.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Mind
  • Producers
  • Seven

• It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Successful
  • Bores

• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

  

  Barbara Ess
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Seems

• Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Synthesis

• I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Worry

• I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to construct a free-floating sentence that speaks about the world I witness.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • Together
  • Witness
  • Floating

• Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

  

  Elisabeth of Wied
  • Friendship
  • Gratitude
  • Photograph

• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • People
  • Memories
  • Charming

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