The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
The past is what the past is.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.