Quotes About Capturing

Nathaniel Belasco had photographed his wife between 1977 and 1983, using one of the first twenty-by-twenty-four Polaroids capable of capturing the tiniest details with the utmost precision.

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.

Blunders, gropings, disappointment; surely the Cupid serving him was left-handed, with a weak chin and no imagination. And alongside these feeble romances there had been hundreds of girls of whom he had dreamed but whom he had never got to know; they had just slid past him, leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree against golden heavens; ripples of light on the inner curve of a bridge; a thing quite impossible to capture

One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

The gardener coaxes seeds from the earth, lavishing attention on their every fragile leaf, their magnificent blossoms. How fragile, how fleeting—this beauty, this love. Only the perfumer can capture, extend nature's response. Oh, that we could grasp real love so. —DB

You'd really go all the way to Greece, and run a covert operation again, just so I can have the satisfaction of capturing Nick Fox?" "Sure," he said. "We don't get nearly enough quality father-daughter time.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

The final story of randomness—utter chaos—has not yet been told to us by the mathematicians. It seems remarkable that something so fundamental for probability theory has not been defined and even more remarkable that we can go so far in mathematics lacking a definition. By simply assuming randomness exists, mathematicians assign elementary probabilities to events, and that is their starting point. But they have not captured chaos and looked it in the eye.

For me photography is to place head and heart and eye along the same line of sight. It's a way of life.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

no other mechanism known to humankind is as effective in addressing global warming as capturing carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.