Force Quote by Kate Morton

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate…

— Kate Morton

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will…

— Michelle Richmond

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

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

— Wim Wenders

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

— Susan Sontag

“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is a forward-looking…

— Shawn Michelle Smith

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

I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar…

— Rondal Partridge

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

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

— Sally Mann