Basement Quote by Joe McNally

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

“Photography created, and then social media aggravated, the vast majority of people’s inability to enjoy what is happening … without the urge to capture…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

— Shomei Tomatsu

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

— Anonymous

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it…

— Cole Sprouse

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a…

— Walker Evans

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

— Lewis Hine

Photography is an act of love.

— Jay Maisel

The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease…

— Alexey Brodovitch