Motifs Quote by Bernd Becher

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

— Anonymous

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

— Georges Braque

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

— B. W. Powe

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and…

— Mark Rothko

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake…

— John Divola

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

— Anonymous

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann