
“You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret & Official 'Hugo' Movie Companion
A collection of quotes on the topic of photo, likeness, doing, look.
“You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.”
Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret & Official 'Hugo' Movie Companion
“The photo is the most important thing.”
Interview with Mohamed VI in the headquarters of the UN, September 2010.
As President, 2008
Source: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/09/21/espana/1285022449.html
“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”
The Moaning of Life, Karl on Happiness
“Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“This is not a photo opportunity.”
Existencilism (2002)
“All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
“I didn’t invite anyone to pose for a photo together with me.”
Said after several G20 representatives refused to join a group photo session together with Lavrov, quoted in "Vladimir Putin lackey Sergey Lavrov storms out of G20 after photo snub" https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/russian-minister-sergey-lavrov-leaves-g20-after-photo-snub/, New York Post, 8 July 2022
About the Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022
On Wii
Source: November 16, 2006 Business Week interview http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061116_750580.htm
“Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
Family Business
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
Cap 2 "The Wuhan Songsters"
“When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.”
Source: When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
Source: Looking for Alibrandi
Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.
Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
In Richter's letters from Düsseldorf, 19 July 1963 - to two artist friends, Helmut and Erika Heinze
1960's
“We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.”
The Shipping News (1993)
'Hair grows the way it wants'
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
Pope Francis has utterly failed to tackle the church’s abuse scandal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/pope-francis-catholic-church-abuse-scandal-failed (26 July 2018), The Guardian.
from an interview for El Mundo (2014), regarding the announcement of Morrissey's cancer diagnosis
In interviews etc., About life and death
w:Dorothy Norman recorded a conversation between Stieglitz and a man, looking at one of his 'Equivalents' prints
Source: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
Source: 1963 - 1967, What Is Pop Art? Interviews with Eight Painters, Part 1 (1963), pp. 116-19
When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)
Review https://web.archive.org/web/20120505180249/http://rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120418/REVIEWS/120419985/1001 of The Lucky One (18 April 2012)
Reviews, Two-and-a-half star reviews
In Richter's letters from Düsseldorf, 10 March 1963 - to two artist friends, Helmut and Erika Heinze
1960's
Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream (2015)
Antje Utgaard Spills The Top Mistakes You're Making On Instagram https://galoremag.com/antje-utgaard-spills-the-top-mistakes-youre-making-on-instagram/ (November 3, 2016)
citation needed
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Wees zoo goed en meld me per omgaande, met teekening en uitleg, hoe ik een [foto]-camera kan maken. - zooals ik toen bij jou gezien heb.
Quote of Breitner's letter to his friend H. van der Weele, 14 July 1883 or 1889; as cited by R. Bergsma, & P.H. Hefting, in George Hendrik Breitner 1857-1923, Bussum 1994, p. 21
There are different opinions about the year Breitner started using a photo-camera; they all differ between 1883 and 1889
before 1890
Spencer Tunick in: "Interview Spencer Tunick," at coolcleveland.com, 2004.
Quoted on Out Serve Magazine, "Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith Makes Statemant" http://outservemag.com/2012/08/brig-gen-tammy-smith-makes-statement/, August 16, 2013.
9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', p. 63
"Demonic Mustache Rant!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ktiWWYxq8, February 2012.
2012
"The Horn of Triton", pp. 508–509
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
memories of Princess Meredith about encountering the body of her father, Essus; p. 40
Merry Gentry series, A Stroke of Midnight (2005)
George Roussos as quoted by George Roussos in Gruenwald, Mark (April 1983). "George Roussos". Comics Interview (2) (Fictioneer Books). pp. 45–51.
About
1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981
Valentine, from Mean Time (1993).
Quote of Gabriele Münter in her 'Memoir entries' for 1905; as cited by Roger Benjamin, Cristina Ashjian, in Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia; Univ. of California Press, 18 Aug 2015
They see their parents naked all the time. We are not ashamed.
Admitting that there are nude photographs of herself and Seal hanging in their bedroom and bathroom. Quoted by Jennifer Weiner in InStyle, February 2010.
2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)
CBS News, 2014; [Blogger makes intimate connections with strangers on streets of NYC, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/humans-of-new-york-blogger-talks-connecting-with-strangers/, CBS NEWS, January 2, 2014, January 6, 2014]
Richter's aunt had been murdered by the Nazis in the name of euthanasia, a crime for which his father-in-law from his first marriage, a Nazi doctor named Heinrich Eufinger, had been partially responsible. Richter painted a portrait of his aunt in 1965, based on an old photo. It was called 'Tante Marianne' / 9Aunt Marianne).
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
“I'm not a model. Whenever I do a photo shoot I like to create a story.”
ES Magazine, 13 Jan 2012, pages 26-29
Blender Magazine, "Boy Crazy" Article- June, 2006
Source: http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1927
Quoted on Yahoo News, "Meet Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith, the first openly gay U.S. general" http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/meet-brig-gen-tammy-smith-us-first-openly-211521611.html, August 13, 2012.
Source: Press briefing http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040510-14.html, May 10, 2004
Source: Crazy Sexy Diet (2011), Ch. 7
Unleashing the Criminal Mind," San Francisco Examiner, July 12, 1990.
1981 - 2008
Source: 'Kelly in conversation, summers 1985 and 1986'; ed. Diane Upright, "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper", Harry N. Inc., Publishers, New York, in association with the Fort Worth Art Museum, New York, 1987 p. 21
Pg 62
The Way of Men (2012)
http://web.archive.org/web/20101014172908/http://rocknrolltales.com/read/afi
1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981
Social Media Star Antje Utgaard On Her Modeling Career, Instagram Tips & Being Compared To Kate Upton https://uinterview.com/news/social-media-star-antje-utgaard-modeling-career-instagram-tips-compared-kate-upton-video-exclusive/ (October 7, 2016)
Interview by Kate Sullivan for Allure, April 2010
And, I will love HIM forever.
As quoted in "Michael Jackson: Elizabeth Taylor Honors her good friend" by Dave Karger, Entertainment Weekly (26 June 2009)
translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Het is niet mogelijk dergelijke dingen te maken zonder hulp van photos. Hoe wil je dat ik een Amsterdamsche straat maak. Ik maak krabbeltjes in mijn schetsboek. als het kan een studie uit een raam. en een schets voor de details maar de keus. De compositie is toch van mij.
after 1886; quoted by Van Veen in G.H. Breitner : fotograaf en schilder van het Amsterdamse stadsgezicht', 1997, p. 28-29; as cited in Van IJs naar Sneeuw - De ontwikkeling van het wintergezicht in de 19de eeuw, Arsine Nazarian Juli 2008, Utrecht, p. 85
Breitner defended himself when he was criticized by his art-dealer in using photography for making his paintings
undated quotes
Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia http://nw.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=600755, 19 April 2009
from " The Smiths: Johnny Marr looks back http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-smiths-johnny-marr-looks-back-526130.html", The Independent (24 February 2006).
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
standup performance (accessible through .WAV files available on the Internet)[citation needed]
Standup routines
Richard Long, British Council (1994). Richard Long: São Paulo Bienal 1994.
1990s
Marty Feldman - Six Degrees of Separation, BBC4.
“Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.”
Mayer on why he agreed to tour with Sheryl Crow, despite the fact that he considers her more established and successful
Mervis, Scott (2006). "Music Preview: John Mayer takes strides with new record" http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06236/715835-42.stm Post-Gazette.com (accessed August 23, 2006)
"Wear Sunscreen" (1997)
In a letter to his sister, describing his observations from a trip to Germany of the cult-like status given the Kaiser.
Speaking out on the media's caricature of him
People
Quote, 1950, in: Fernand Léger - The Later Years, catalogue ed. Nicolas Serota, published by the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art gallery, London, Prestel Verlag, 1988, p. 58
Quotes of Fernand Leger, 1950's
Leonard Baskin Interview (1996) Discussing the State of Contemporary Art. in: Don Gray " Art Essays, Art Criticism & Poems http://jessieevans-dongrayart.com/essays/essay028.html" at jessieevans-dongrayart.com