Able Quote by Eddie Martinez

The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change…

— Paritoshik Sharma

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

— Carine Roitfeld

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

— Finley Peter Dunne

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

— Richard Mottram

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind.…

— Eric Ripert

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

— Walter Benjamin

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Sometimes to make a future, you have to let go of the past...of old what ifs, the memories, the photographs and replace it all…

— Sarah Moores

When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself…

— Wong Kar-wai

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

— Alan Cohen

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

— Douglas McCulloh