Photograph Quotes

• I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Photograph
  • Consideration
  • Purposes

• [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

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

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

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Technique
  • Synthesis

• Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Sleep
  • Wealth

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

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Interest

• 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

• The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

  

  George A Tice
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Interesting

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

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photograph
  • Depends

• The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

  

  Nobuyoshi Araki
  • Photograph
  • Cameras

• The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Doing
  • Realize
  • Photograph

• 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

• Facts cling to photographs like dust.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • Facts
  • Photograph
  • Dust

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future

  

  Nobuyoshi Araki
  • Past
  • Drag
  • Frustrating

• What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Design
  • Form
  • Responsible

• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  

  William Albert Allard
  • Believe
  • Special
  • Quiet

• What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Art
  • inspirational
  • Photography

• You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

  

  Colm O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Fire
  • Mick Lyons

• The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as being in some respect alive. I try to approach everything that I photograph with this sense of wide-eyed awe.

  

  Abelardo Morell
  • World
  • Trying
  • Spiritual

• A good photograph, like a good painting, speaks with a loud voice and demands time and attention if it is to be fully perceived. An art lover is perfectly willing to hang a painting on a wall for years on end, but ask him to study a single photograph for ten unbroken minutes and he’ll think it’s a waste of time. Staying power is difficult to build into a photograph. Mostly, it takes content. A good photograph can penetrate the subconscious – but only if it is allowed to speak for however much time it needs to get there.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Attention
  • Subconscious
  • Penetrate

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