Quotes with photograph

Quotes 21 till 33 of 33.

  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Marcel Proust 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.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bjork The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • John Berger 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.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Ansel Adams We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Annie Leibovitz 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.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ben Harper When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Carol Shields Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ansel Adams You don't take a photograph, you make it.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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