Built Quote by Ansel Adams

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's…

— Robert Barry

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

— Joachim Schmid

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those things are inextricable bound up in my mind, with words I make an image and vice versa.

— Jan Theuninck

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in…

— Victor Burgin

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

— Bede Griffiths

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of…

— Daido Moriyama

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

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

— Ansel Adams

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share…

— Jean Helion