Abiding Quote by Rondal Partridge

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

— Ai Weiwei

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

— Richard Misrach

...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents…

— Eugene Richards

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

— Wim Wenders

The beauty of photographs are that they never change…even if the people in them do...

— Ritu Ghatourey

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the…

— Catherine Opie

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

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later…

— George A Tice

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will…

— Michelle Richmond

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag