All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
I've got a great collection of photography.
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.
I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.
If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.
Photograph each day so we can live forever
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.
I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.
I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.
The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.
I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.
I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)
I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.
