Details Quote by Susan Sontag

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”

— Susan Sontag

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

— Raghu Rai

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

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

— Sam Abell

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

— Brigitte Bardot

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

— Nelson Shanks

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

— Eadweard Muybridge

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

— Tom Waits

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

Photography of life

— Mayte

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

— Richard Kalvar

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

— Ai Weiwei