Quotes About Capturing

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

part together. This struck me as important. But 2 percent is always alive. From a certain microbiological standpoint, trees are immortal. I think history is like this. We cannot capture much more than the trees do of what is living about history. The rest is solid cortex. It stands and is of use to the living part.

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.

I'm one of those moms who's at the bus stop with my camcorder every year, with my phone taking a million pictures as they get on the bus.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves.

Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.