Glad Quote by John Loengard

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect…

— Margaret Bourke-White

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

— Bill Eppridge

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out…

— Susan Sontag

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

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

“Photographs last for a lifetime.”

— Winna Efendi

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

“What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share…

— Jesús Holguin

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

“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

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's…

— Edward Weston

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