Photography Quotes

13 quotations about Photography
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus · Photography
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin · Photography
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
Dirk Bogarde · Photography
At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran]
Avery Brooks · Photography
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Photography
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange · Photography
Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.
William Leith · Photography
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman Mailer · Photography
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm · Photography
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Edvard Munch · Photography
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
Eliot Porter · Photography
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin · Photography
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag · Photography

Authors on Photography

Diane Arbus Walter Benjamin Dirk Bogarde Avery Brooks Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dorothea Lange William Leith Norman Mailer Janet Malcolm Edvard Munch Eliot Porter John Ruskin Susan Sontag