Photographs Quotes

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

~ Amit Kalantri

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

~ Alan Moore

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The photos I took in Afghanistan are lying in front of me. I peer into the faces of those who were with me there and who are so far away from me now, into the faces of those who were dying right next to me and those who were hiding behind my back. I can make these photos larger or smaller, darker or lighter. But what I can't do is bring back those who are gone forever.

~ Vladislav Tamarov

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

~ Diane Arbus

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

~ Diane Arbus

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

~ Diane Arbus

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

~ Nuno Roque

Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I've been.

~ Destin Sparks

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

~ Amit Kalantri

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

~ Amit Kalantri

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

~ Amit Kalantri

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.

~ A.e. Samaan

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

~ Rivera Sun

(When)When you call me nugget.When you take pictures of me.When you dance.When you complement me.When you laugh.When your eyes squint as you smile.When we make love when we're sick.I fall more in love with you.

~ Crystal Woods

True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame.

~ Doug Rice

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

~ Enid Blyton

…this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can’t remember if you’re recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

~ Michael Zadoorian

Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.''Don't you have a photograph?''Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.

~ Siri Hustvedt

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

~ Dean Koontz

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him -- or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say.

~ José Saramago

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long.

~ W.g. Sebald

Now, obviously, all old people seem cool whenever we see black-and-white images of their younger selves. It's human nature to inject every old picture with positive abstractions. We can't help ourselves. We all do it. We want those things to be true, because we all hope future generations will have the same thoughts when they come across forgotten photographs of us.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

We take pictures with peopleso they could remember usand leave memories behindso they don’t forget us.And the differencebetween the two are the same.We leave these momentsin the air,hoping that somewheresomeone will find themand make sense of everythingwe chose to ignore.

~ Robert M. Drake

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

~ Craig Lancaster

Songs can be like photos - they hold a memory, a moment, and thoughts that keep you warm inside.

~ Judy Moore

And then you leave the memories behind.When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you know thatin that photos everyone was actually broken deep down inside. Wounded. Bleeding. Crying and yelling at the same time.They were some kinda wounded birds... Eagles, wrens... When you remind that, you became some kinda phoenix. And life goes on like this.like an uncomplete poem.

~ Arzum Uzun

He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories.

~ Lauren Groff

Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time has turned into hazy recollections. Were it not for them, my experiences would have remained as just imperfect memories of perfect moments.

~ Isabel Lopez