Ifs Quote by Gerhard Richter

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost…

— Jean Baudrillard

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

— Edgar Degas

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

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

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

— Daido Moriyama

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to…

— Joel Sternfeld