Appeals Quote by Sam Abell

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.”

— Debasish Mridha

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

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

— Eddie Adams

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light,…

— Damien Hirst

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which…

— Susan Sontag

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell

“Pictures never tell the whole story," I say trying to be reassuring. "They're a projection of how people want you to see them”

— Fiona Neill