Basic things Quote by Marjane Satrapi

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good…

— John Gutmann

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

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

Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there…

— Fred Ritchin

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what…

— William J. Mitchell

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

— Gregory Crewdson

What good are images if people understand them?

— Jon Stewart

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing…

— Stan Lee

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

— Emmet Gowin

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static…

— Alan Perlis