Illustration Quote by Peter Porter

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

— William Eggleston

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

— Ernst Haas

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to…

— Alec Soth

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

— Emil Nolde

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

— Emmet Gowin

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it…

— Kerry James Marshall

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

— Frederick Sommer

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike…

— Susan Sontag

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the…

— Gerhard Richter

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann