Browsing Topic Best Photograph Quotes

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It’s a philosophy, and it’s got its own intellectual framework. Then there’s what happens when it’s your photograph. Then it’s personal, and that’s all I’ll say.

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I’m crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I was an amateur – I am an amateur – and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer’s creation.

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what’s left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn’t be visible at all, it should be transparent.

[Making movies] you’re not trying to capture reality, you’re trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I always think photographs abominable, and I don’t like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.

I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

Photograph each day so we can live forever

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

You can’t photograph everything.

The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you’re a moron, you’re going to get a really strong photograph.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won’t remember their vacation. They’ll only remember what photographs they took.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

I’m not a great one for chatting people up, because it’s phony. I don’t want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It’s very cruel.

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography – that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Let us… leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.