Been Quote by Mark Rothko

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they…

— Oscar Wilde

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

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it…

— Kerry James Marshall

Pictures are pictures, and they can be made to look like whatever they want to.

— Greg Hardy

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

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the…

— Susan Sontag

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression…

— John F. Carlson

“for I wish rather, in this lecture at least, to dwell on the effect that decorative art has on human life - on its…

— Oscar Wilde

The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to…

— Roger Ballen