Hints Quote by Nelson Shanks

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

— Erica Jong

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

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

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to…

— Sam Abell

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

— Diane Arbus

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula