But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say…

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to…

— Pedro Meyer

I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's…

— Stephen Shore

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

— Annie Leibovitz

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from…

— Garry Winogrand

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

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

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates…

— Jeff Koons

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to…

— Sam Abell

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make…

— Edward Said

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke