Top 260 Photographic Quotes & Sayings

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I want and expect them to function in terms of the viewer and their experience. With these abstract pictures, although the eye recognizes them as photographic rather than painted, the eye also tries to connect them to reality. There's always this association machine working in the brain, and that is why it is important to me that they are actually photographic and not painted.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

I have a photographic memory for numbers.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

I have a photographic memory that enables me to visualize what everyone in the huddle is supposed to do on each of the hundreds of plays in our playbook.

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic imagination.

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol.

I have a photographic memory.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.