Abolish Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Even in this age of digital manipulation, photographs continue to hold a huge degree of power and meaning. They're beautiful and sad and complicated…

— Michael Light

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even…

— Paul Virilio

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision.…

— Louie Schwartzberg

“[Speed] ostensibly perverts the illusory order of normal perception, the order of arrival of information. What could have seemed simultaneous is diversified and decomposes.…

— Paul Virilio

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't believe everything that you see up in a photo. When I'm with you, I wish that time could move slow-mo.

— Big Sean

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even…

— Sarah Dessen

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

— James F. Cooper

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim