Die Quote by Caterina Fake

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

— William Wordsworth

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.…

— George W. Bush

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

— Steve McCurry

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they…

— Marilynne Robinson

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front…

— John Hurt

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

— Christian Boltanski

Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

— Kevin Brooks

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