Familiar Quote by Robert Heinecken

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

— Freeman Patterson

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it…

— Kerry James Marshall

When I photograph, I am always relating things to one another. Photography shows the connection between things, how they relate.

— Leonard Freed

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory,…

— Paul Klee

When a person looks at a photograph you've taken, they will always think of themselves, their own life experience. They will relate your photograph…

— Jason Fulford

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

— Gregory Crewdson

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

— Ernst Haas

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

— Michael Light

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture,…

— Rene Magritte