Fifty Quote by Pipilotti Rist

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person…

— Eddie Adams

Picture-making now is nothing like it was in the old days.

— Jackie Coogan

“Photographs last for a lifetime.”

— Winna Efendi

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

— Allan Sekula

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

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand…

— Roy Stryker

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

— Brandon Flowers

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

— Alexander Rodchenko