Photographs Quotes

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

The Press is reducing everything that is noblest and impressive in modern life into terms of Press photographs and Press interviews. In fact they try to dominate everything. How can you concentrate on the solemnity of a scene when you have men with cameras in every direction, whose sole object is to get as near as they can to the central figures? How can you be impressed as much as you would like to be by what is said, when you know that all round you are people taking notes, and that the people who are speaking know that they are taking notes. One or two reporters, for the sake of preserving a record, would not be so bad. But they have to be dealt with in armies nowadays. The Press is destroying all romance, all solemnity, all majesty. They are as unscrupulous as they are vulgar.

As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

I keep Polaroids in my wallet of me and my friends.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

I hate having my photograph taken.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs.

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

One of the best ideas to ever come out of Washington.

I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.

I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.