The photograph as an objective representation of reality…

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation…

— Edward Said

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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

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

Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or…

— Hannah Hoch

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite…

— Gregory Bateson

Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you,…

— Pedro Meyer

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel