Art Quote by Dennis Oppenheim

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

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

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or…

— Anonymous

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

They were ... pure and unadulterated photographs, and sometimes they hinted at the existence of visual truths that had escaped all other systems of detection.

— John Szarkowski

A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art…

— Dan Graham

I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that…

— Edouard Boubat

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost…

— Jean Baudrillard

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the…

— Robert Polidori

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris