Fleeting Quote by Allen Ginsberg

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms…

— Fred Ritchin

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit…

— Harry Callahan

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag