William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
My photographs are the fragments of a shapeless cry that tries to say who knows what... What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
Jean Paul Sartre
[Writer and philosopher, b. 1905, Paris, d. 1980, Paris.]
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
Sally Mann
[Photographer, b. 1951, Lexington, Virginia, lives in Lexington.]
Each good picture always holds despair within it, for it raises the ante for the ones that follow.
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
Lord Snowdon (Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones)
[Earl and photographer, b. 1930, London, England, d. 2017, London.]
I’m very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren’t. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.
Diane Arbus
[Photographer, b. 1923, New York, d. 1971, New York.]
The photograph is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Elizabeth McCausland
[Writer and critic, b. 1899, Wichita, Kansas, d. 1965, New York.]
The fact is a thousand times more important than the photographer...
Susan Sontag
[Writer, theorist, and critic, b. 1933, New York, d. 2004, New York.]
All photographs are
memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.
