Knows Quote by Chuck Close

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene…

— Sam Abell

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a…

— Don DeLillo

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you…

— Frank Gohlke

The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's…

— William Shatner

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it,…

— Saul Leiter

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place…

— Idris Khan

Sometimes I just think of an image. Basically, I see an image in front of me. My eyes are open, but I visualize an…

— Juan Diego Solanas

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

— Lynne Ramsay

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a…

— Jack Welpott

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz