Alive Quote by Annette Messager

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with…

— David Bailey

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of…

— Christian Metz

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to…

— Leonard Nimoy

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me…

— Barbara Kruger

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at…

— Marisa Silver

Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white.…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of…

— Christian Metz

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

— Marcel Duchamp

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,

— Nobuyoshi Araki