Doe Quote by Stephen Shore

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his…

— Eugene Delacroix

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

— Thomas Demand

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing…

— William Albert Allard

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

— William Eggleston

There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

— Walead Beshty

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own.…

— Robert Heinecken

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make…

— Susan Sontag

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

— Marc Riboud