Brutality Quote by Nobuyoshi Araki

When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my…

— David Cronenberg

Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.

— Roland Barthes

“Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such…

— Greg Marinovich

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

— Martin Parr

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to…

— Susan Sontag

If there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera…

— V. S. Pritchett

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can…

— James Nachtwey

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I…

— Jan de Bont

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals