Aspect Quote by Idris Khan

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

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

— Roni Horn

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in…

— Steve McCurry

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

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

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were…

— Kevin Systrom

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…

— Michael Light

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

— Bill Eppridge

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

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

— Leanna Renee Hieber