Drawing Quote by John Berger

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never…

— Susan Sontag

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

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

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken