Half Quote by Emmet Gowin

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what…

— William J. Mitchell

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

— Jay Maisel

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because…

— Harry Callahan

“As yet, though we live in a culture in which images are the dominant currency of communication, we have been unable to form an…

— Scott Bukatman

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that…

— Clint Eastwood

I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the…

— Gregory Crewdson

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

— David Doubilet

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

“A picture is a reflection of the dreams, vision, missions and goals hidden within. Look beyond what you see.”

— Proud Chocolate

What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think…

— James Dean

Images are really powerful in making us aware of what's possible.

— Evan Sharp

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

— Berenice Abbott