Emotion Quote by Richard Avedon

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly…

— Joseph Kosuth

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

— Richard Avedon

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but…

— Richard Avedon

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days…

— Anne Geddes