Capture Quote by Salvador Dali

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

— Richard Misrach

... 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

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

— Sebastian Smee

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a…

— Yukio Mishima

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan