Dream Quote by Sylvia Plachy

You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your…

— Sylvia Plachy

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

— Richard Kalvar

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do.…

— David Salle

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

— Sam Abell

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of veracity, that…

— Larry Sultan

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

— Ansel Adams