Ideas Quote by Gilles Peress

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

— Arnold Newman

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas

Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo should not…

— Edouard Boubat

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be…

— Lorna Simpson

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay