Photography Quote by Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

Ansel [Adams] always jumped over the fence to photograph, walked past the garbage. He always looked to get an immaculate view, and I spent…

— Rondal Partridge

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate. You have…

— Hazel Gaynor

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie.…

— Walter J. Phillips

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but…

— John Dunning

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust