Instant Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

“Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only…

— Scott McCloud

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

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past,…

— Peter Wollen

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

— Marshall McLuhan

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Part of the mystery of any given photograph is the fact that it was taken at a certain time and in a certain place…

— Errol Morris

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

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's…

— Edward Weston

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

— John Updike