Amplify Quote by Kenneth Clark

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect…

— Steven Bochco

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're…

— Sigmar Polke

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.

— Charis Wilson

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the…

— Max Kozloff

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again -…

— Maxwell Maltz

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a…

— Ansel Adams

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same time, I…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image…

— Robert Doisneau

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and…

— Alfred Stieglitz

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro