Individual Quote by Joel Sternfeld

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium…

— Joel Sternfeld

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

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

— Ansel Adams

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a…

— Joel Sternfeld

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

— Olivier Zahm

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson