Sally Mann
Photographer
"The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best."
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Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Life is a movie; death is a photograph."
Jack Johnson
Musician
"Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude."
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"The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it."
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"Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art."
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"Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph."
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"But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have."
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"We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show."
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"All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs."
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"A photograph is a souvenir of life!"
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"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
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"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
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"In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it."
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"I never photograph reality."
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"To photograph is to confer importance."
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"I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself."
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"An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive."
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"Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid."
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"The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
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"Photograph not only what you see but also what you feel."
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"If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now."
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"Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas."
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"If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph."
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