Sophie Ristelhueber
[Photographer, b. 1949, Paris, lives in Paris.]
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything,
yet we see nothing.
Elaine Reichek
[Artist, b. 1969, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
The trouble with photography is that it gives you the illusion that it’s possible to see purely. In a limited way, the camera catches so accurately what’s in front of it that you think that’s all there is to say. In fact, of course, the very idea that that's all there is to say is part of an attitude, a cultural stance, a politics, an ideology, a whole mental structure of which the camera is only a small part.
Lou Reed
[Musician, b. 1942, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2013, Southampton, New York.]
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
Arthur Rothstein
[Writer, b. 1915, New York, d. 1985, New Rochelle, New York.]
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator.
Gerhard Richter
[Artist, b. 1932, Dresden, lives in Düsseldorf.]
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.
Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum)
[Writer, b. 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russia, d. 1982, New York.]
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.
Joshua Reynolds
[Artist, b. 1723, Plympton, Devonshire, England, d. 1792, London.]
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
