Quotes About Capture

Mid-morning is a good time for selfies because of the natural light.

I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these arid words and shakes and flaps in them-- and I hardly know anymore when I look at it how I could ever have felt so happy when I caught this bird.

The common thread between 'Moon Shoes' and 'Midnight Moonlight' would definitely be their connection to the moon. However, I feel they both capture a very different quality of the moon. Perhaps 'Moon Shoes' epitomizes the moon during the summer, while 'Midnight Moonlight' the winter.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

momentos de amor leve com as pessoas que amo, e uma infinidade de cenas, como se fossem fotografias, que ficaram gravadas na minha memória. Quando eu morrer, vão se perder. Mas não quero que se percam. Tenho de dá-las para alguém que tome conta delas. Aí me vem a aflição por escrever. Quando escrevo, estou lutando contra a morte. A morte das coisas que o meu amor ajuntou e que vão se perder quando eu morrer.

All creation or destruction of forms, or morphogenesis, can be described by the disappearance of the attractors representing the initial forms, and their replacement by capture by the attractors representing the final forms.

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.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.