Attached Link: Famous Photography Quotes

There's no doubt that analysing and discussing something visual that was created at a fairly intuitive, visceral level is always awkward, like cutting through water with a sledge hammer.

I suppose the problem is that if something fascinates you the instinct is to talk about it -  or blurt out something inane just because you need to show you like it!

I totally agree that self-commentary is usually a means of compensation for not saying all you wanted in the original picture. I think a lot of prominent modern art is guilty of this - i.e arch cretin Damien Hirst's pickled shark, the title alone being: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Interesting idea, feeble execution.

Quotes like the ones attached are more general reflections than forms of compensation.

Here's another good one: Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art - Susan Sontag