Belief Quote by Rae Armantrout

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

— Samuel Johnson

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense…

— Allen Ginsberg

“People today are used to seeing not only the incredible but the impossible as well, all provided by the mega-pixel. We witness miracles and…

— James Rozoff

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms…

— Fred Ritchin

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it,…

— Francis Stevens

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

— Eddie Adams

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they…

— Marcel Proust

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us…

— Mark Nepo

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish…

— Arthur Dove