Hated Quote by Melina Marchetta

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

— Wim Wenders

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

— Jan Phillips

That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and of course…

— Eugene Richards

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

— Raghu Rai

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

Old photographs are the mirrors of the past that defines who you are as time goes by no matter what youve been through in…

— Jazz Ramirez

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

“Pictures aren’t lives. They’re pictures of lives. Snapshots for memories, but not representatives of the heart.”

— Calvin W. Allison

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

— Ai Weiwei