Arbitrary Quote by Umberto Eco

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious…

— John Paul Caponigro

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also…

— Umberto Eco

As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the…

— Wynn Bullock

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining…

— Gustave Le Bon

Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

“It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and…

— Joseph Roth

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

— Gerhard Richter

“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”

— Andrei Tarkovsky