Museums Quote by Richard Misrach

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with…

— David Bailey

Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a…

— Susan Sontag

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected…

— Susan Sontag

There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've…

— Elliott Erwitt

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people…

— Amartya Sen

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange,…

— Henry Holmes Smith

It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I…

— George Rodger

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones