Appearances Quote by Duane Michals

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

— Joel Meyerowitz

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is…

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

— Walead Beshty

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

— George Bernard Shaw

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

— Eugene Delacroix

Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just…

— Berenice Abbott

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

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