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Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

— Peter Wollen

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

“The photographer's art: To freeze the fleeting masterpieces nature creates at sunrise and sunset.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

It is hard to avoid the aspect of time when producing what ones sees as a photograph.... my images [are] something that is not…

— Idris Khan

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in…

— Steve McCurry

“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

— Marshall McLuhan

Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open…

— Lauren Oliver

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction…

— Ingmar Bergman

“The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel through time,…

— Greg Bottoms

The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and…

— Jean Pigozzi