Abstract Quote by Ansel Adams

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

— Andreas Gursky

Photography has not invented anything.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man…

— Neil Postman

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

— Gerhard Richter

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

— Jean Cocteau

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in…

— Bianca Jagger

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it…

— Stephen Shore