Constant Quote by Dennis Oppenheim

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

No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes...

— David Hockney

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

“The word 'image' is in bad repute because we have thoughtlessly believed that a drawing was a tracing, a copy, a second thing, and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point…

— David Hockney

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his…

— Eugene Delacroix

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be…

— Annie Leibovitz