Different Quote by Jasper Johns

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or…

— Mary Ellen Mark

So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something,…

— Lynn Johnston

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

— Agatha Christie

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

— James Turrell

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

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

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that…

— Gerhard Richter

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

— Jean Baudrillard

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it…

— Kerry James Marshall

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

— William James