Cents Quote by Edouard Boubat

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are…

— Rondal Partridge

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the…

— Chris Marker

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

— Susan Sontag

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally…

— Stuart Franklin

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar…

— Rondal Partridge

When people go to the post office or any federal building, they expect to see pictures of their government leaders displayed.

— Dan Donovan

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make…

— Susan Sontag

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

— Marie-Luise Gothein