Quotes About Capture

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Quotes are the enchanted way of freezing our thoughts in time forever.

Instinctively and empirically we know that stories have the power and the potential to capture hearts and imaginations—we're just not sure how or why this is so.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

Each fragrance bottle and name captured a moment in time perfectly.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout against anyone - only against time.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

In fact, I cannot envisage any future time where I should want to do anything at all to capture your attention.

Everyone smiles for a photograph.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide when and where to aim the camera. The process was linear and it never stopped. That's still true, although I've traded in my need for always taking pictures. I can't let them go by sometimes now and just be there.

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it. You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion.

Whole scenes of your life can slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.

Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.