(172 quotes found)
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Susan Sontag
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
Yousuf Karsh
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”
Tallulah Bankhead
“To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.”
Dave Barry
“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
Edward Steichen
“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”
Lewis Hine
“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.”
Ansel Adams
“I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.”
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
W. Eugene Smith
“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
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