Determine Quote by Wright Morris

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Allan Sekula

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for…

— Roy DeCarava

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's…

— Robert Barry

Photos can be photoshoped but words don't.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the…

— Arthur Rothstein

The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the…

— Alexey Brodovitch