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Quotes About Capture

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
~ Sam Abell
...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.
~ Vilém Flusser
My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.
~ Berthe Morisot
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
~ Max Beckmann
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
~ William S. Burroughs
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
~ Patti Smith
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
~ William Hazlitt
I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.
~ Janet Malcolm
I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose.
~ Diane Arbus
What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?
~ Dinty W. Moore
We travel into or away from our photographs.
~ Don DeLillo
He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.
~ Donald Miller
4.    Created a lead-generating PDF. I should have used a lead generator to capture emails.         5.    Created an email campaign. I should have earned the trust of people who had given me their email address by sending them helpful emails that practically solved their problems.
~ Donald Miller
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
~ Jacques Lacan
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
El poema es el momento en que se capta con la sangre el pensamiento de la vida.
~ Unknown
She is bending over her child. She can't leave her. The child is laid out in state on a table. She wants to take one more photograph of the child, probably the last. In life, the child would never sit still for a photograph. She says to herself, "I'm going to get the camera," as if saying to the child, "Don't move.
~ Lydia Davis
We also know that evolution crafted all life on the planet with natural selection and that we can capture the way it works with mathematics, distilling its essence into the form of equations.
~ Unknown
The time had come to capture thought once again in a net of words.
~ Unknown
First, we all stop listening, so they have to make it ever more horrendous to capture our attention. Secondly, we all become even more convinced that everything has gone rotten, and there is no hope at all, no hope at all. In a world of no hope the motto is semper fidelis, which means in translation, "Every week is screw-your-buddy week and his wife too, if he's out of town.
~ John D. MacDonald
I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very fisrt time i met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn't really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline - and me. But of course, he is right. They're anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.
~ John Fowles
I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn't really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline - and me. But of course, he is right. They're anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.
~ John Fowles
When she set out back to Aberdeen, he planned to seize her as she forded the River Spey.
~ John Guy
Two of his sons were captured, one of them Sir John, who was executed next day at Aberdeen.
~ John Guy