It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such…

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good…

— Patrick Demarchelier

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

— John Baldessari

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do…

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

— Susan Sontag

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

— Susan Sontag

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag