Quotes About Capture

Photographing my success was my best photo."

The photographer does not view the scene as a moment to be savored but as a future memory to be designed. Pictures

Writing a novel, said Humboldt, seemed to him the perfect way to capture the most fleeting essence of the present for the future.

Time is to clock as mind is to brain. The clock or watch somehow contains the time. And yet time refuses to be bottled up like a genie stuffed in a lamp. Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch.

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

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

To try to capture "all the words of a language" is as futile as trying to capture all the drops of water in a flowing river.

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.

Don't you see the act of capturing and punishing another being is an act of force? It's impossible to enforce laws without violence. Some authority always wields the power to arrest, to imprison, and to execute. The sole purpose of law is to provide a moral gloss for the use of violence to bend others to the will of a higher authority.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it

like a hunter stalking his prey.

If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.

But talk, however light, however idle, gives away, inevitably, the sort of person you are. The wise criminal would never open his mouth, but criminals are seldom wise and usually vain and they talk a good deal—and so most criminals are caught.

The word photography itself means "drawing with light" in Greek.

The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The camera can photograph thought.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.