Contact Quote by Willy Ronis

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

— Mary McCartney

Very often there is too little information in photographs to deduce how they were made and even what they represent. We rely on context…

— John Paul Caponigro

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Form is the shape of content...

— Ben Shahn

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

— Allan Sekula

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

— Bill Watterson

Content dictates form and style.

— Stephen Sondheim

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended…

— Garry Winogrand

When it comes down to, it's not about the form, it's about the content.

— Nina Tassler

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

— David Hockney

Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.

— Stephen Jay Gould