Quotes on Photograph

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

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

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

The word "photography" can be interpreted as "writing with light" or "drawing with light." Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light.. Some other photographers are trying to tell something with their photographs. They are writing with light.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

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.

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.