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Quotes About Capturing

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
~ Susan Sontag
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no sean conscientes de la cámara, se encuentren con la guardia baja.
~ Susan Sontag
Coleccionar fotografías es coleccionar el mundo.
~ Susan Sontag
People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
~ Susan Sontag
They stopped a few times along the way, the early start affording them the opportunity. Marc exposed several rolls of film of the changing coastline and took several pictures of her as well. By the time they reached
~ Bonnie Blythe
I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
~ Jeff Ament
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Milarepa wrote: In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.
~ Joe Berlinger
Thats part of what I love about photography - the images I like are the ones that look the most relaxed, but a lot of skill goes into making them look that that relaxed.
~ Mary McCartney
La experiencia no es nunca limitada, y no es jamás completa; es una sensibilidad inmensa, una especie de enorme tela de araña de los más finos hilos de seda suspendida en la cámara de la conciencia, y que capta en su tejido todas las particularidades llevadas por el aire.
~ Henry James
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.
~ Henry Miller
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and me at the state fair, in front of the Golden Gate bridge, or smiling half-heartedly next to a mascot.
~ Mary Pilon
I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?
~ Kate McCafferty
I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger sister and her friends all through high school.
~ Petra Collins
I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
~ Bernardo Bertolucci
great photojournalists
~ Stuart Woods
Michael took pictures of everybody. "We'll want to remember this," he told Janie.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.
~ Dustin Lance Black
Ölü insanlar?n fotoÄŸraflar? neden hep böyle soluk oluyor, diye merak etti Josephine. Bir insan ölür ölmez fotoÄŸraf? da ölüyordu.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Adoram fotografiile alea. Intotdeauna iti taiau capul pe jumatate sau erau intunecate de degetul cuiva, dar pareau sa prinda ceva veritabil.
~ Gayle Forman