Clutch Quote by Siegfried Kracauer

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

— Raghu Rai

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

— Sam Abell

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

— Ai Weiwei

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate…

— Kate Morton

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at…

— Marisa Silver

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

— Andre Bazin

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with…

— Kate Morton

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

— Tod Papageorge