Addresses Quote by Uta Barth

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

— Ansel Adams

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

— Susan Sontag

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph.…

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

— Robert Heinecken

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

In order to be a successful Photographer, you must possess both Vision and Focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes

— Kevin Russo

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was…

— Tibor Kalman

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

— Roni Horn

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

— Olafur Eliasson