Accustomed Quote by Umberto Eco

“A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the…

— Paul Valery

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or…

— Anonymous

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

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

— Ai Weiwei

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a photograph might…

— Marguerite Duras

We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the…

— Uta Barth

...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

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which…

— Roland Barthes

“She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it…

— Whitney Otto

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

— Dennis Oppenheim