Photograph Quotes

• Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Discoveries

• I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Interest

• 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.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • Done
  • Art

• [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

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Daguerreotype

• 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

• 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.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

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

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

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

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Looks
  • Photography

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Synthesis

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Successful
  • Bores

• 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.

  

  Halton Arp
  • Science
  • Evidence
  • Clouds

• 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

• A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  

  Dan Graham
  • Art
  • Values
  • Economic

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