Photography Quote by Pierre Reverdy

The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or…

— Pierre Reverdy

Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To…

— Claude Cahun

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means…

— Luc Delahaye

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

— William Shirley

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

— Andy Grundberg

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar

... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

— Ovid

The identity of one changes with how one percieves reality

— Vithu Jeyaloganathan

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

— Bede Griffiths