Cutting Quote by Paul Kane

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with…

— Richard Kern

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

— David Byrne

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them…

— Dave Hickey

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…

— Duane Michals

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

— Henry Adams

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but…

— Connor Franta

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates…

— Jeff Koons

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson