Encounters Quote by Anders Petersen

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

— Steve McCurry

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later…

— George A Tice

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the…

— Robert Smithson

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

— Anonymous

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Grant Mudford

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many…

— Josef Koudelka

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen