Cease Quote by Thomas Struth

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that…

— Minor White

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

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

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms…

— Fred Ritchin

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

— Robin Morgan

Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of…

— Gregory Crewdson

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

— Francis Bacon