Photographs Quotes

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneres

Beautiful, Mother, Why

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

Focus, Silence, Words

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams

Everybody, Paintings, Trusts

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
Phyllis Diller

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Heart, Give, Same

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

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams

Good, Year, Crop

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley

Art, True, Cannot

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.
Jerry Saltz

Making, Seen, Late

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Art, Greatest

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Alone

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Find, Idea

The camera photographs what's there.
Jack Nicholson

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.
Susan Sontag

Past, Help, Give

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson

Life, Truth, Liars

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev

Show, High, Quality

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney

Done, Tell, Often

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
David Hockney

Second, Open, Scrutiny

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Evil, Place

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.
Susan Orlean

Time, Everything, Find

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
Sienna Miller

Great, Long, Turn

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Love, Art, Important

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Susan Sontag

Travel, Strategy, Becomes

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
Arthur Erickson

Experience, Cannot, Film

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

Life, Forever, Details

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Susan Sontag

Beautiful, Successful, Become

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Art, Rest, Separated

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
Christian Louboutin

Women, Trying, Shoes

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