Certain Quote by Idris Khan

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

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 photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over…

— Eva Rubinstein

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

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud…

— Anton Yelchin

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments…

— Dianna Agron

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

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

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand