Explanation Quote by Mary Ellen Mark

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

— Joel Sternfeld

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium…

— Joel Sternfeld

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

— Ansel Adams