Quotes About Capture

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture that--the details, the nuance, what is.

I want to remember these nights always, she thought. I want to fix them forever in my memory. I want to lose nothing. When it's done, when it's decided and it's over, I will write a memoir seeking to capture everything forever. When it's happening it is too beautiful, too overwhelming, and you can feel it's being lost with every breath you take.

fancy traps to capture a past that had never existed, to create a feeling of solidity for people who lived moment to moment in a fear of death bordering on hysteria.

Words fall out of the sky like leaves, girl. Grab a couple and write 'em down.

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

Use words that soak up life.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

I retain a stupid, Romantic love for pens and pads. The stuff of writing still affects me. And I've always been someone who will go to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to write down something, a word or idea, that for whatever reason had not wanted to be lost. You have to be a squirrel in that way. You have to be a chipmunk, and what you are collecting are combinations of words.

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment."

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out of each other's lives, as we all must eventually leave this earth. Great artists know that shadow, work always against the dying light, but always knowing that the day brings new light and that the ocean which washes away all traces on the sand leaves us a new canvas with each wave.

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore.

the added expense of carbon capture and storage for all the new coal plants expected to be built in all of the world's developing nations could be paid for through a one percent tax on the electricity bills of consumers in developed nations.