Able Quote by Lynn Johnston

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore

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

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to…

— Steve McCurry

If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I…

— Martin Parr

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

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

— John Paul Caponigro

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone…

— John Loengard

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston