Collective memory Quote by Blaise Aguera y Arcas

The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world…

— Berenice Abbott

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

— Neil Postman

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand

Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we…

— Martin Parr

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...

— Fred Hoyle

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

— Susan Sontag

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

— John Coplans