Quotes with photographs

  • Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
  • Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Demick If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Milan Kundera Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Anna Held No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Al Goldstein Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Louis de Bernieres People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
    Social Studies (1981)
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Ben Shahn Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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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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  • Bruce Jackson The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Ansel Adams There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Ansel Adams Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Holden When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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