Important Quote by Robert Smithson

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later…

— George A Tice

...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all…

— Andy Grundberg

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The beauty of photographs are that they never change....even if the people in them do...

— Ritu Ghatourey

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they…

— Rankin

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught…

— Mark Twain

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley