Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in…

— Roland Barthes

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

— John Steinbeck

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

— Sam Abell

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of…

— Christian Metz

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy.…

— Annette Messager

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

— Esther Hicks

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point.…

— Don DeLillo

“Something about the occasion makes me think I'm at my own wake. Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to…

— Don DeLillo