Direct Quote by Arthur Tress

“Picture in a frame”

— Tom Waits

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange,…

— Henry Holmes Smith

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until…

— Elliott Erwitt

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I wanted to bring art world ideas into a documentary space. Every medium has its limitations, but if you would like to - as…

— RaMell Ross

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

— Susan Sontag

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to…

— Simon Norfolk

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

— John Berger

During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs,…

— Jacques Derrida

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to…

— Pedro Meyer

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