Butterfly Quote by Roland Barthes

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very…

— Roland Barthes

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

— Ivan Klíma

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image…

— Brassai

Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives...…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

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

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

— Craig Owens

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images,…

— Gilles Deleuze

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

— Eddie Adams

Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,…

— Robert Adams

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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of…

— John Berger