Doe Quote by Robert Barry

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

Photos can be photoshoped but words don't.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in the world…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to…

— Peter Doig