Depends Quote by Edouard Boubat

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

— Francis Bacon

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the…

— Mark Klett

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas;…

— Gilles Peress

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized.…

— Gertrude Kasebier