Quotes by Photograph I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead. Brigitte Bardot photograph lying people I have never been skinny. The thing is, I was in an industry where being athletic was not celebrated. I have friends who are supermodels, and I never had that body. I've never been asked to walk in a Versace show. I was doing the covers of the magazines while they were cruising the clothes down the runway, and then they'd bring me the clothes and I'd have to photograph them. Brooke Shields versace athletic photograph Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. Bruce Beresford hats mexico photograph You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures. Caroline Knapp wallets puppy photograph Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. Catherine Opie situation light photograph I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth. Cecil Beaton teeth photograph want No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. Charlie Hunnam host paint photograph We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph. Christian Boltanski dies photograph earth I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler Christian Boltanski photograph photographer feels It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before. Chuck Close magic photograph thinking Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own. Chuck Palahniuk stealing blind photograph The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. Clyde Tombaugh drawing different photograph You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire Colm O'Rourke photograph fire children Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it? Constantin Brancusi sculpture i-can photograph Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs. Craig Owens printing photograph links The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. D. H. Lawrence modern atheism photograph Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph. Daido Moriyama declaration photograph I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph. Danny Lyon responsible photograph feels The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling. David Burnett motivated photograph feelings But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity. David Heyman simplicity powerful photograph «1234567891011»