Familiar Quote by Mark Rothko

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and…

— Emmet Gowin

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

— John Updike

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

— Mark Rothko

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that…

— Terri Clark

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise…

— Steve McCurry

“the images of Revelation are symbols with evocative power inviting imaginative participation in the book’s symbolic world. But they do not work merely by…

— Richard Bauckham

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality…

— Siegfried Kracauer

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom'…

— Philip Guston

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott