Attributes Quote by Victor Burgin

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

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 suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

— Andy Grundberg

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

“A picture is a reflection of the dreams, vision, missions and goals hidden within. Look beyond what you see.”

— Proud Chocolate

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

Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a…

— Guy Debord

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

— Herbert Bayer

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it…

— James Whistler

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson