Change Quote by Trevor Paglen

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

— Susan Sontag

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

— Jason Fulford

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

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

— Thomas Demand

For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at a piece…

— Catherine Yass

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that…

— Terri Clark

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression…

— John F. Carlson

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

— Ai Weiwei