Declaration Quote by Daido Moriyama Download Open image “Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.” — Daido Moriyama ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Declaration Photograph Photography
The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is. — Minor White Copy Share Image
A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone. — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. — Minor White Copy Share Image
“People’s bodies sticky with olive oil as they stand on an overcrowded beach looking at the gutter-like sea... [a] black spectacle [that] appears cruel… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality” — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
When I take photographs, my body inevitably enters a trancelike state. Briskly weaving my way through the avenues, every cell in my body becomes… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is… — Joe Pitts Copy Share Image
Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations. Go along,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I've tired so hard to stay away from you, buy your soul is so powerful. It can't be ignored. It calls to me. It's… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and work. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image