Photograph Quotes - Page 8

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

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

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

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

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.