Also Quote by Julian Schnabel

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

— Gus Van Sant

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

— Jim Goldberg

There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them…

— Steven Klein

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when…

— Thomas Ruff

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind.…

— Eric Ripert

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

— Marla Maples

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

— Janet Malcolm

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

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

— Sally Mann

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed…

— Kathy Reichs