Eye Quote by Marc Riboud

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or…

— Alexey Brodovitch

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

— Nan Kempner

I guess even when you can see everything, some things will always be a surprise.

— Robin Benway

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is…

— Jacques Derrida

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it.

— Mani Sharma

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

— Jennifer Coolidge

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is revealed by…

— Dawoud Bey