List Of Photograph Quotes

I Would Never Understand Photography, The Sneaky, Murderous Taxidermy Of It.

I Have No Fear Of Photography As Long As It Cannot Be Used In Heaven And In Hell.

The Camera Will Never Compete With The Brush And The Palette, Until Such Time As Photographs Can Be Taken In Heaven Or Hell.

Photography Is An Art Which Touches And Grips One's Own Heart's Blood.

I'm Not An Abstractionist. I'm Not Interested In The Relationship Of Color Or Form Or Anything Else. I'm Interested Only In Expressing Basic Human Emotions: Tragedy, Ecstasy, Doom, And So On.

As For The Various Kinds Of Montage Photography, They Are In Reality Not Photography At All But A Kind Of Painting In Which Photography Is Used - As Pastiches Of Textiles Are Used In Crazy-quilts - To Form A Mosaic. Whatever Value The Montage May Have Derives From Painting Rather Than The Camera.

All We Ever See Of Stars Are Their Old Photographs.

I Guess I'm Adaptable. You Know, I Turn Up At Work And [photographers] Can Kind Of Do What They Want With Me, Really.

It Would Drive The Photographers Crazy Because I Would Giggle And Tell Jokes. I Was Gregarious, And Looking Back, I Realize I Had A Captive Audience.

Photographs Force Us To See People Before Their Future Weighed Them Down, Before They Knew Their Endings.

It Is A Cruel, Ironical Art, Photography. The Dragging Of Captured Moments Into The Future; Moments That Should Have Been Allowed To Be Evaporate Into The Past; Should Exist Only In Memories, Glimpsed Through The Fog Of Events That Came After. Photographs Force Us To See People Before Their Future Weighed Them Down.

One Of The Most Recent Things We Did [in Perceval Press] Is A Reissue Of A Fantastic Documentary About Russian Prison Tattoo Culture By Alix Lambert Called The Mark Of Cain. We've Done Books From Twilight Of Empire, That Actually Has Forewords By Howard Zinn And Dennis Kucinich And Others, To Books Of Poetry, Photography, Painting - All Kinds Of Books.