Photograph Quotes

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams

Good, Knowing, Stand

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Sun, Picture

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

Great, Sense, Feels

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

True, Words, Nor

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

Time, Person, Moment

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!
Ansel Adams

Soul, Keep, Alive

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

Secret, Less, Tells

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

Life, Beauty, Remember

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Love, Reality, Thought

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams

Nature, Live, Humanity

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great, Reality, Joy

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

True, Rather, Minds

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

Life, Looking, Eternity

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

Good, Mind, Feeling

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

Remember, Put, Full

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Annie Leibovitz

Someone, Means, Anyone

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
Diane Arbus

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
Oliver Stone

Beauty, Work, Beautiful

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

Travel, Strange, Purpose

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Reality, Interest, Minute

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
Tallulah Bankhead

Through, Used, Temple

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

Family, Often, Remains

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
David Bailey

Rockers, Nicest

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney

Made, Show, Point

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
David Hockney

Good, Real, Enough

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?
Susan Orlean

Hard, Why, Soul

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.
Sienna Miller

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