Communication Quote by Tibor Kalman

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means…

— John Updike

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

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something…

— Susan Sontag

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what…

— Ben Wheatley

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

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show…

— Irving Penn

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

— Bill Jay

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

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann