Film Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The…

— Mary Ellen Mark

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Wright Morris

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day;…

— James Whistler

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the…

— Robert Polidori

“An image has a shape and so does sound and so does montage and so does drama. The film sense is that art which…

— Salman Rushdie

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

A picture is the expression of an impression

— Ernst Haas