Quotes About Capture

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The camera can photograph thought.

Fish that don't open their mouths don't get caught.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

She loved the permanence of film, how you couldn't just delete an image and try again.

I was reminded of how much I love photography. The chance to capture a moment of time, forever.

After all, when one goes out into the city with the sole goal of capturing the city, only to discover that the city is nothing but a restless shifting of scaffolding, then one must refrain from going out.

We've already taken a hundred pictures today, and we'll take hundreds more, but I know this one will be my favorite.

I wish I could keep a scrap of fog in my pocket for whenever the weather got oppressively nice.

So, I went through the motions and got the photos, like every mom does on special occasions. Just get the damn photo so we can create the memory. Then I can go back to real life. Then I could go back inside and hide.

The town was very nice and our house was very fine. The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way.

The camera has a short memory. But the pen remembers forever.

the village of Suomussalmi, in a ferociously brilliant Finnish operation that ranks with any of the Second World War. A logging, fishing and hunting community of 4,000 people before the war, it was captured by the 163rd (Tula) Motorized Rifle Division on 9 December, but was then cut off by the Finnish 9th Brigade under Colonel Hjalmar Siilasvuo.