Association Quote by John Gutmann

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of…

— Lorna Simpson

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

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

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure…

— Thomas Demand

You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in a culture…

— Marjane Satrapi

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart

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

— Duane Michals

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

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