Photograph Quote by Olafur Eliasson

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

— Ansel Adams

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

— Walead Beshty

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

— Duane Michals

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

— Robert Henri

The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the…

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of…

— Susan Sontag

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

— Gordon Parks

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White