Association Quote by Paul Klee

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you…

— Frank Gohlke

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

— Marcel Proust

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There…

— Marcel Proust

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

— Sam Abell

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

— Robert Heinecken

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a…

— Susan Sontag

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson