Description Quote by Duane Michals Download Open image “Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.” — Duane Michals ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Description Insight Photograph Photography Wisdom
As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams 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
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 Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as… — Duane Michals Copy Share
There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it. To put it another way, the statement the image makes - not just what it show you, but the mood, moral evaluation and casual connections it… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share
A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend? — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows.… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
