Appearance Quote by Minor White

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

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential…

— Thomas Struth

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

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

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger