Photography Quote by Katie Roiphe

“That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the…

— J.M. Coetzee

“If there was one great benefit to the whole practice of art, it was to focus him in the “now,” where the ugly past…

— Christina McKenna

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”

— Lian Hearn

“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing…

— David Malouf

“For him, the world was now a picture knocked crooked. He could barely judge the ground beneath his boots and the stars in the…

— Andy Davidson

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

“He cursed a little, not so much because he cared about the photographs as because he wanted to preserve his good spirits, his serotonin-rich…

— Jonathan Franzen

“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the…

— Will Gompertz

“Yes, he remembered it perfectly. He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his…

— Oscar Wilde

“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of…

— Richard Flanagan

“Photographs provided a tangible reality to men who were far from home, fearful and tired; they were posed proofs of success, souvenirs to send…

— Michael Crichton