Firsts Quote by Algernon Blackwood

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as…

— Marcel Proust

The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's…

— William Shatner

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

— Arthur Erickson

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

— Sister Parish

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has…

— Leonard Nimoy

Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems a ritual…

— Robert Adams

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in…

— W. G. Sebald

Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places,…

— Chris Ware

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the…

— Alex Webb

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory,…

— Paul Klee

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.

— John Pfahl