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Quotes About Capture

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
~ John Berger
All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time.
~ John Szarkowski
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn't ever any relief, never the possibility of an 'All Clear' siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.
~ Elizabeth Wein
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
~ Elliott Erwitt
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
~ Elliott Erwitt
Bring me the sunset in a cup.
~ Emily Dickinson
I wished I could take those words back. Gather them up like butterflies in a net.
~ Barbara O'Connor
The sky on a clear night is a living, pulsating thing. The stars are like musical notes turned to light, and, like notes, they shimmer and swell and fade and fall. The painters have never captured it—but they never will until some painter teaches his colors to dance.
~ barbara quick
His style was the exact opposite of his technical work; his line was loose, economical, free. And he wanted to capture what he couldn't keep, the fleeting, the transient.
~ Beatrice Colin
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
The only difficult thing is learning to recognise the interesting bits from those millions of moments life provides you with every day and writing down those snippets.
~ John Grant
I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.
~ Juergen Teller
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
~ Barry Gibb
Something will come to me in the middle of the day, and I'll Voice Note it so I don't forget how I felt when the idea came about. I can hear the feeling I had when I first recorded it.
~ Saweetie
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
~ Dino De Laurentiis
We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.
~ Michael Scott
In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that - it's a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that's the hardest part.
~ Alison Mosshart
Since the beginning of time, evil has try to capture the magic of the Hardy Compound and the nucleus of its magic, Excalibur.
~ Matt Hardy
When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.
~ George Orwell
We have been developing an ever closer relationship with China on climate change for many years which has led to collaboration on carbon trading, offshore wind development, on low-carbon buildings, on nuclear energy, and on carbon capture and storage - to name just some of the ways in which we're working together.
~ Ed Davey
Surplus money allows some people to exercise inordinate power over others: in the workplace; in politics; and above all in the capture, use and destruction of the planet's natural wealth.
~ George Monbiot
Tim Miller's idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture, they needed an extremely tall man. I'm 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there.
~ Stefan Kapicic
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
~ Darryl F. Zanuck
Personally, I think 'Dead Americans' is the best title I have, but you can't win with everyone. Titles have to be short, catchy, not too obscure, not offensive, and still capture the genre, and so on and so forth. Takeshi Kitano has it about right when he says he'd just like to title his films by number.
~ Ben Peek