Doe Quote by Sam Abell

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going on to…

— Pedro Meyer

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or…

— Ansel Adams

We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second…

— Laura McPhee

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented…

— Neil Postman

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation…

— Edward Said

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates…

— Jeff Koons

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

— Jock Sturges

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

— Alicia Keys