Aspect Quote by Emmet Gowin

Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a…

— Jack Welpott

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to…

— Harry Callahan

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture,…

— Rene Magritte

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

— Joel Meyerowitz

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and…

— Susan Sontag

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well…

— Paul Caponigro