Arrested Quote by Ivan Klíma

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or…

— Anonymous

A picture is the expression of an impression

— Ernst Haas

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at…

— Marisa Silver

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

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

“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

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

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

— Eugene Delacroix

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

— Garry Winogrand

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

— Edgar Degas