Chance Quote by Sylvia Plachy

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

— Sylvia Plachy

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make…

— Martin Parr

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world…

— David Wojnarowicz

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

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking…

— Leonard Freed

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they…

— Harry Callahan

My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five years later,…

— Nick Zinner