Quotes About Photographs

Every man has his own way of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise.

The room into which Sir Charles was shown had walls of a rather drab oatmeal colour with a frieze of laburnum round the top. The curtains were of rose-coloured velvet, there were a lot of photographs and china dogs, the telephone was coyly hidden by a lady with ruffled skirts, there were a great many little tables and some suspicious-looking brasswork from Birmingham via the Far East.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

When I die and my memories die with me, all that will remain will be thousands of yellowing photographs and 35mm negatives in my filing cabinets.

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

When you collect photographs, you're sort of at the mercy of the gods.

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

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the '60s and '70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.