#photographs

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

— Jack Johnson

#full #like #made #our #our dreams

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#gotten #i #literally #me #off

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#american #american tradition #back #brought #coast

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#communicate #emotion #fails #feel #had

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#equal #fighting #forever #limit #make

My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#best #bit #component #definitely #different

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#communicate #complex #concept #instantly #more

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#along #asia #began #camera #details

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#i #look #love #myself #photographs