Being sad Quote by Chuck Close

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again…

— Steve McCurry

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

— John Loengard

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality.…

— Keith Shackleton

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

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

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

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would…

— Nan Goldin

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a…

— Richard Avedon

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

— Anna May Wong

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

— Peter Wollen

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