Looks Quote by Eliot Porter

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

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

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

— Errol Morris

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson