“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

“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.”

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

“to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”

“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”