Important Quote by Edward Weston

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

— Marshall McLuhan

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

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

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all…

— Edward Weston

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

“A photograph is usually the photographer’s subconscious attempted to possess the photographed moment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment.…

— David Levithan

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

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

— Leanna Renee Hieber

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag