To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with…

— Duane Michals

... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial you have…

— Thomas Merton

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

— Stanley Kubrick

I never photograph reality.

— Sarah Moon

Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photograph also…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of…

— Duane Michals

There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got frustrated and…

— Juergen Teller

Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I…

— Olivia Wilde

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.

— Sylvia Plachy

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

I started shooting for 'Photograph' right after 'Dangal' so, it's really special for me.

— Sanya Malhotra

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

— Minor White

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado