Courses Quote by Thomas Merton

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

— Herman Melville

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

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

— Sophocles

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within…

— Louis L'Amour

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

— Ansel Adams

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

— Bell Hooks