The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an…

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but…

— Ambrose Bierce

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

— Robert Heinecken

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

— Ambrose Bierce

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The object is that which is objected against me.

— Julien Torma

Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

— Bruno Munari

To beautify life is to give it an object.

— Jose Marti

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion…

— Ambrose Bierce

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as…

— Jasper Johns

The Text is not a definitive object.

— Roland Barthes