Old Photographs Quotes

• Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

  Sally Mann

  Inspirational, Photography, Past

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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• There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Forever, Gone

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

  Christian Lacroix

  Years, Looks, Realizing

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• I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.

  Logan Lerman

  Mom, Truth, Dad

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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  Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

  Tim McGraw

  Love, Memories, Feelings

  Song: BBQ Stain

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• All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Photograph

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

  Robert Smith

  Adults, Way, Photograph

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• How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Feelings, Sorrow, Finals

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• I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Wish, Hollywood

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

  Tom Berenger

  Notebook, Fall, Done

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• There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?

  Frederick Buechner

  Song, Easter, Book

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• I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, Kids, Looks

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.

  Gail Zappa

  Uncles, Memories, Aunt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

  Mason Cooley

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

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• Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

  Sara Sheridan

  Archives, Research, Charity

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• A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

  Emmy Rossum

  Inspiration, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.elle.com

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• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

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• A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial configuration of a moment; what appears in the photograph is not the person but the sum of what can be subtracted from him or her.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Running, Moments, Photograph

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• There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bird, Magic, Littles

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• It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

  Alan Moore

  Years, Style, Faces

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Running, Dad, Children

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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