Art Quote by Laurel Nakadate

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again…

— Steve McCurry

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies… Now…

— Catherine Opie

Photography is away of feeling, of touching, of loving what you have caught on film, and that is captured forever even when you forget…

— Anonymous

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

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

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are,…

— 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

“Sometimes I think you take photographs instead of seeing, you forget to look in your eagerness to grasp what is seen, to capture it…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

— Ben Shahn

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

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