Photograph Quote by Torbjørn Rødland

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever.…

— Deborah Turbeville

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I…

— Diane Arbus

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

— Robert Adams

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

— Paul Kane

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange,…

— Henry Holmes Smith

“Another unary photograph is the pornographic photograph (I am not saying the erotic photograph: the erotic is a pornographic that has been disturbed, fissured).…

— Roland Barthes

This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're…

— Katy Grannan

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

“The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects--if never erotic objects.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag