A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment. — David Levithan
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. — Aaron Siskind
Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film. — Steven Wright
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. — Demetri Martin
The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures. — Christian Boltanski
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever. — Mark Twain
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Photographic Memory Quotes
I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost. — Nan Goldin
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. — Steven Wright
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory. — Eikoh Hosoe
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. — Tim McGraw
I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet. — Jonathan Winters
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. — Thalassa Cruso
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were. — W. G. Sebald
Photo Quotes
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. — Ansel Adams
Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately. — Jeffrey Deitch
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. — Audrey Tautou
The axe forgets what the tree remembers.
As funny as some photos can be, think twice about allowing yourself to be tagged in questionable photos. — Lewis Howes
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image. — Peter Lik
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. — Marc Riboud
Photography Quotes
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke
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
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do. — Sally Mann
The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset. — Catherine Opie
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. — Michael Kenna
Memories Recall Quotes
You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories! — Joel Osteen
When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
Nutrition significantly impacts mental function, memory, and emotional state, influencing the memories we recall and the ones projected into our consciousness. — Gary Brecka
To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! — John Irving
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. — Peter Matthiessen
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? — Judith McNaught
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
Were it not better to forget,
Than but remember and regret? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. — Frank DeFord
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. — Jodi Picoult
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense. — Kevin Systrom
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. — Gretchen Rubin
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas on the software Photosynth
I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I'm really glad that I have all of that. — Bindi Irwin
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'm a really nostalgic person. I love taking photos and video and having memories. I remember all my childhood videos that my dad used to take. I think that's really what life is about - especially when you start a family of your own. — Kim Kardashian
So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos. — Gary Hustwit
I don't particularly like photos of myself, though. — Kanye West
When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life, or some friends, or yourself, you just have a lot more information about what that memory was. That's exciting to me. It's like a form of time preservation, I suppose. — Reggie Watts
The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time. — Joachim Schmid
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of the ruling society, the invention of illustrated magazines is one of the most powerful means of organizing a strike against understanding... The 'image-idea' drives away the idea. — Siegfried Kracauer
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them. — Umberto Eco
It'd be nice to feel that claustrophobic feeling or the anxiety that the film Melancholia produces, but for me I look at it and think about what I was doing that day, where we shot it... It's kind of like a weird memory. It's more a photo album of memories than being able to feel connected to myself. It's not easy to do. — Kirsten Dunst
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue. — Vladimir Nabokov
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions. — Pam Brown
I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories. — Gordon Bell
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157) — Michelle Richmond
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