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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A photograph can look any way.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Photography

• 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

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

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

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Synthesis

• 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

• 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 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

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

  

  Elisabeth of Wied
  • Friendship
  • Gratitude
  • Photograph

• The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Knowledge
  • Exist
  • Boundaries

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