Appearance Quote by Larry Sultan

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

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put…

— Mark Klett

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

— Fay Godwin

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

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

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

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

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s…

— Roy DeCarava

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