Avenues Quote by Susan Sontag

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off…

— Louis Aragon

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the…

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement…

— Walter Benjamin

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those…

— Robert Denning

“I’m crazy about this City. Daylight slants like a razor cutting the buildings in half. In the top half I see looking faces and…

— Toni Morrison

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard…

— Helmut Newton

When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around you are…

— Lucy Corin

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except…

— Christopher Alexander

My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need…

— Mike Ruiz

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are…

— Rondal Partridge