Photograph Quotes - Page 16

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

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.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography. It’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it, or it’s not interesting to me.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Take pictures of what you fear.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)