Function Quote by Luc Delahaye

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability…

— Susan Sontag

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

— Lewis Hine

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of…

— Susan Sontag

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my…

— David Hockney

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now…

— David Lynch

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary.…

— Rita Mae Brown

The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into…

— David Lynch