Important Quote by Pablo Picasso

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

— Pablo Picasso

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

— Emmet Gowin

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

— Eric Maisel

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

— Raghu Rai

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

— Ronald Sukenick

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,

— Anonymous

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

— Hervey Allen

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

— Salman Rushdie

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later…

— George A Tice