Photograph Quotes - Page 4

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.

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

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

I was in the right place at the right time.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.