Amount Quote by Richard Avedon

“I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled look was…

— Marisha Pessl

People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to…

— Leon Golub

“No photograph can truly recall the beloved’s smile.”

— C. S. Lewis

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place…

— Idris Khan

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon bombing without…

— Jeff Bauman

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

— Donald Rumsfeld

“Being photographed was dead time for the soul. Can the head think, while it does the same half smile under the same light frown?…

— Martin Amis

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

— Jamel Shabazz

“The look on his face became like the tiny snapshot of a beloved that soldiers take with them to the battlefield, not only to…

— André Aciman

“There is something strikingly different about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour, or the…

— Amitav Ghosh

“I have memories, but I don’t know if they are really mine or if I’ve just seen so many pictures. I think that I…

— Bethany Turner