Before death Quote by Joel-Peter Witkin

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

— Steve McCurry

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a photo as…

— Rachel Morrison

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.

— Vicki Goldberg

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

— Gus Van Sant

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for…

— George Santayana

The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were,…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

— Thomas Struth