Chance Quote by Frederick Sommer

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being…

— Peter Porter

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of…

— Walker Evans

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

— Guy Le Querrec

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

— John Stuart Mill

Photography is a love affair with life.

— Burk Uzzle

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

— Francis Bacon

“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is a forward-looking…

— Shawn Michelle Smith

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

“Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send…

— Michael Crichton

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to…

— Alec Soth

“NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it…

— Ambrose Bierce