Appearance Quote by Tennessee Williams

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature…

— Duane Michals

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

— Maurice Sendak

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

— John Loengard

The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise…

— Paul Strand

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from…

— Richard Kalvar