Butchers Quote by John Constable

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make…

— Edgar Degas

“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would…

— Ethan Chatagnier

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

— Edgar Degas

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I…

— Errol Morris

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

— Daniel Berehulak

Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through layers of…

— Taryn Simon

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

There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being…

— John Heartfield