Art Quote by Stephen Shore

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give…

— Sarah Moon

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also…

— Douglas Crimp

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

— Andre Bazin

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but is 400% less valuable, because a picture only captures one of the senses—sight. However, words can…

— Jarod Kintz

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can…

— Susan Sontag

An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

— Germano Facetti