Objects Quote by John Divola

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

— Robert Heinecken

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which…

— Andre Bazin

“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, like, say, masturbatory habits (for me, about once a day, usually in the shower), we…

— Dave Eggers

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

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

— Paul Klee

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being…

— Peter Porter

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

— Ramakrishna

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

— Ernst Haas

The relationship with a snake is not like what we have with dogs, like how we can sort of cuddle a dog.

— Danny Green