“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.” MindMeanDoeDreamWould BeFormOrderVisionPathTakenRecordsStageRemainsPhotographAppearanceDespiteCuriousPerceiveConcreteInitialsMetamorphosis Author:Pablo Picasso
“One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.” KnowsPiecesPhotographyRemainsPhotographDrawingGapsTornFragmentsProfile Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
“We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.” FeelsArtLevelsEmotionObjectsRemainsPhotographerPhotographLinkedDomainSouvenirsPersonal History Author:Chris Marker
“All my pictures are very voyeuristic, but ultimately I'm looking at what lurks in my own interior. I make photographs because I want to answer the question of what propels me to do the things that I do. But that always remains a mystery.” WantMy OwnAnswersMysteryRemainsPhotographInteriors Author:Gregory Crewdson
“For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point the photo is almost made, and all that remains is the mechanical process.” PeopleMadeProcessUnderstandingCitiesIntellectualConnectionsRemainsHistoricalPhotographAll That Remains Author:Thomas Struth
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.” PhotographyRemainsPhotographAlbumsCousinOften IsExtended FamilyAll That Remains Book:On photography Source: On photography
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.” WayFirstsFacesLoversRemainsPhotographBathsAcidOutlinesMolesPimplesOld PhotographsBleaching Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.” LittlesWholeStoriesHouseHoursEventsOrdinaryRemainsLifetimePhotographBonesRuinsClockOutcomesDozenBurnedFurnitureOrdinary Things Book:The God of Small Things Source: The God of Small Things
“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalYearsLooksKindRememberMotherFatherGrowsChangeTakenWiseNiceMonthsPhotographyYears AgoRemainsPhotographThought ProvokingBe KindOld You Author:Albert Einstein
“Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.” MenWaySaidShowsHandsEarthActorsFatherLiteratureNamesWishMemoriesEternalOvercomingTheaterRemainsPhotographBest WayPerformingLive In The PresentSignaturesPantheonHappiest Man Author:Ilan Stavans