Architecture Quote by Beaumont Newhall

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

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

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will…

— Michelle Richmond

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are,…

— Susan Sontag

We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible…

— Bernd Becher