Quotes by category:Photograph

The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

A. D. Coleman

photograph simple facts

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

Abelardo Morell

care photograph interesting

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

Aidan Gillen

photograph conscious self

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

Alan Moore

old-photographs stars photograph

In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What's the point?

Alec Soth

photograph looks world

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.

Alec Soth

motivation photograph giving

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

Alex Webb

compact eye photograph

We wanted to have in Lotus Eaters something that looks really beautiful on the outside but is not necessarily on the inside. There's a lot of superficial references. I remember we were looking at Helmut Newton's photographs - they just look so glossy and beautiful, but you look closely and you can see the cellulite.

Alexandra McGuinness

photograph remember beautiful

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

cameron photograph reason

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Alfred Stieglitz

vision photograph trying

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Alfred Stieglitz

photograph photographer looks

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

Allan Sekula

objective-truth offers photograph

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Allan Sekula

utterance photograph messages

You can't photograph everything.

Allen Ginsberg

photograph

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

painting results photograph

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

Amelie Nothomb

felt photograph purpose

When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

Amy Ryan

term photograph character

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

Anders Petersen

longing photograph

[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

virtue becoming photograph

Photograph each day so we can live forever

Andy Biersack

each-day photograph forever