Majority Quote by James Whistler

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Ansel Adams

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

— Rod Stewart

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make…

— Edgar Degas

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

— Bill Jay

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

— Josef Koudelka

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not…

— Langston Hughes

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make…

— Susan Sontag

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

— Charles Osgood