#photograph

It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists is to teach me how they see. To learn how I see is somethig that cannot be taught but must be learned. ↗

— Brooks Jensen

#life

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#looking #photography #men

The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#how #look #me #notion #old photographs

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers! ↗

— Gary Lineker

#beach #breathe #hard #i #i see

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. ↗

— Harry Callahan

#exciting #expressing #feelings #felt #i

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#blind eye #eye #get #great #how

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#beautifully #because #crack #dramatic #dramatic roles

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. ↗

— Man Ray

#comes #dreams #drive #i #imagination

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#beginning #fleeting #learn #live #might