Choice Quote by John Divola

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

— Susan Sontag

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

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

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly…

— Vilem Flusser

I prefer to think of photography as a never ending journey with infinite possibilities. I love to return to places to re photograph. Nothing…

— Michael Kenna

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our…

— Susan Sontag

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become…

— Vilem Flusser

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

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage…

— Michelle Richmond