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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

— David Hockney

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✓Similar Perspectives

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

— William Eggleston

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

— Tino Sehgal

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

— Leroy Chiao

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

— Dorothea Lange

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

— Annie Leibovitz

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

— Errol Morris

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

— Damian Loeb

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

✗Opposing Perspectives

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

— Ben Shahn

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

— Joel Sternfeld