Comic Quote by Daniel Clowes

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

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

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught…

— Mark Twain

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually…

— Annie Leibovitz

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility,…

— Ruth Bernhard

In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust…

— Brassai

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing…

— Gregory Crewdson

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin