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Quotes About Capture

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!
~ Unknown
In Egypt, for instance, the first printing press was set up only in 1798, by Frenchmen who were part of the abortive attempt by Napoleon Bonaparte to capture the country.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
We (1) capture what has our attention; (2) clarify what each item means and what to do about it; (3) organize the results, which presents the options we (4) reflect on, which we then choose to (5) engage with.
~ David Allen
1) capture what has our attention; (2) clarify what each item means and what to do about it; (3) organize the results, which presents the options we (4) reflect on, which we then choose to (5) engage with.
~ David Allen
photo of the three of them that was
~ David Baldacci
and my signature is drawn in magic marker on the lower right hand corner of the window so when something passes in the dark it's captured for a moment inside my work.
~ David Berman
The Australians plunged through the apertures and slew or captured the defenders of the galleries.
~ Winston S. Churchill
If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
~ Woody Guthrie
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
~ Yann Martel
All you have to do is keep the animal in sight, and within ten minutes, you're reeling him in.
~ Christopher McDougall
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
~ Christopher Paolini
The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
~ Unknown
He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Quiero poseer los átomos del tiempo. Y quiero capturar el presente que, por su propia naturaleza, me esta prohibido, el presente se me escapa, la actualidad huye, la actualidad soy yo siempre en presente.
~ Clarice Lispector
Or had you no other means of capturing the grace of this creature except with a collar? Don't you realize that you destroy a rose if you crush it in your hand? I know that tone is unity which cannot be divided by words, I know that I am crushing a rose, but to shatter silence into words is one of my awkward ways of loving silence, & it is in this way that I have so often killed what I understand.
~ Clarice Lispector
Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, preserve time.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cuando era niño, solía llevar a casa animales del bosque (…) Nunca logré domesticarlos, porque lo único que querían, ciega e irracionalmente, era escapar.
~ Lian Hearn
The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still
~ Lian Hearn
I want also to suggest that the disabling nature of incarceration and whose bodies are available for capture should likewise be understood as a core feature of incarceration.
~ Unknown
The thoughts came fast, and I caught them, stopping only once to sharpen my pencil with a penknife. I thought of Nell's euphoria and nearly laughed out loud. This little rush of words was the closest
~ Lily King
I wished there was a way to keep that in a bottle, that one moment of wonderful perfect, so I could open it up whenever I needed to get a good whiff.
~ Lisa Graff
My children are vampires. I don't mean that they are going to dress as vampires for Halloween. I mean that, like vampires, they cannot be captured on film.
~ John Dickerson
For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.
~ Peter Lindbergh
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
~ Nigel Dennis