Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy.…

— Annette Messager

“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative…

— Hyon Gyon

I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people…

— Nora Ephron

“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s…

— Adam Serwer

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.”

— William Moulton Marston

“These images could tell a thousand different stories. That’s the best kind of art, where the viewer can see the same image over and…

— Rebecca Barrow

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

— John Fowles

“They’re powerful, emotional photographs, the kind of expressive, one-in-a-million shots any photographer is lucky to get, like the one of me reaching back for…

— Dot Hutchison

Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the…

— Susan Sontag

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

— Maurizio Cattelan