Artificial Quote by Edgar Degas

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make…

— Edgar Degas

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos,…

— Raymond Chandler

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Manipulating an image is a crime

— Anonymous

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

— Jessica Stockholder

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not…

— Langston Hughes

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

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 ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy