Quotes of Photograph - somelinesforyou

“ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ”

- Robert Frank

“ All photographs are memento mori. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ It's God — I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots. ”

- Tyra Banks

“ Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ”

- Peter Porter

“ I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures. ”

- David Lean

“ A father is a guy who has snapshots where his money sued to be. ”

- Unknown

“ They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. ”

- Janet Malcolm

“ You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. ”

- Daniel Clowes

“ Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, Gee, I'm glad I have that moment. ”

- John Loengard

“ We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. ”

- Robert Frank

“ A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely… ”

- Albert Einstein

“ In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ For half a century photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages? ”

- Gore Vidal

“ There were a lot of people that contributed to my success as a person as well as a player. Without those people, I wouldn't be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in today. I think that it's extremely important for people to realize all of the things that other people do for them. ”

- Alonzo Mourning

“ There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a good thing. It shows people that you can be successful. It can show you a way of life. ”

- Donald Trump

“ My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen — no retouching, no shadows, no flattery — just stark me. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Groucho Marx

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

- Diane Arbus

“ 'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. ”

- Ken Rockwell

“ A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph — only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. ”

- Dirk Bogarde

“ The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and pried open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. ”

- Peter Conrad
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