Doe Quote by Jeff Koons

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that,…

— Ansel Adams

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that…

— Nan Goldin

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and accepted as…

— Abelardo Morell

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

There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea…

— Madonna Ciccone

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms…

— Fred Ritchin

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

— Paul Kane

“Everything spiritual manifests itself visually, everything which is visual turns into spiritual energy, I don't think this is so difficult to grasp. After all,…

— Paulo Coelho