Things just enter reality through photographs.

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the…

— James Agee

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

— Eckhart Tolle

I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help…

— Bob Richardson

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or…

— Max Kozloff

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

— Joel Sternfeld

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

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

— Susan Sontag

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became…

— Gabriel Orozco

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on…

— Garry Winogrand

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr