Documents Quote by Rene Burri

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

— Alexandra Adornetto

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

— David Hockney

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

— Jay Maisel

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the…

— Alexey Brodovitch

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

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

— Claire Messud

It’s attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning,

— Francis Atterbury

Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential, as many…

— Kerry James Marshall

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

— Jeanette Winterson

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most…

— Howard S. Becker

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can…

— Annie Leibovitz