"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

Photography, Mortality, Time, Reflection, Truth

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"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Photography, Memory, Connection, Magic

"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."

Isabel Allende, Chilean Writer

Photography, Writing, Memory, Existence

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Photography, Identity, Self, Modernity

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

Gabriel Lippmann, French Scientist

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"I've been working with photography for many years."

Leonard Nimoy, American Actor

Photography, Years

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

Photography, First, Parents

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

Photography, Eye

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

Dorothea Lange, American Photographer

Photography, Blind, Tomorrow

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

Photography, Light, Mountains, Shadow

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

Photography, Forget

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Art, Experience, Criticism, Now

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

People, Help, Past, Possession

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

Society, People, Potential

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

History, Exhaustion, Man, Possibilities

"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."

Philosophy, Suffering, Religion, Pain, Reflection

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

Art, Photography, Observation, Compassion

"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."

Philosophy, Contemplation, Observation, Emotion, Awareness

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"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."

"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."

"I've been working with photography for many years."

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."