Quotes About Documenting

So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to a temple. I used to document small things and enjoyed the process of writing even then.

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.

Documenting life as it happened seemed like a way of not experiencing it. As if posing for photographs, or focusing on what to save and call a souvenir, made the present instantly the past. You had to choose one or the other was Everly's feeling. Try to shape a moment into a memory you could save and look at later, or have the moment as it was happening, but you couldn't have both.

We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

'Marley' does what is probably the best possible job of documenting an important life.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

Tal vez en algún momento, documentándose para sus personajes, estudiara esos temas; pero nunca a fondo. Según mis conclusiones, todas las prácticas masónicas que describe en José Balsamo y en Los mohicanos de París las extrajo directamente de la Historia pintoresca de la francmasonería de Clavel.

The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I wanted to be out in the field in conflict areas, documenting real life rather than political theater.

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

For me it's always just been about experiencing the things I love and documenting them. I have gotten a lot of joy out of what I do, and I feel lucky to be able to spread that joy.

When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.

I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.

When I was asked to be a part of 'The Face,' I was like, 'This is exactly what I do without cameras.' I didn't find it any different than what I usually do for young girls - giving runway tips or just explaining how the whole industry works - but now you have, like, 19 cameras on you, documenting you while you scratch your nose.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

I love documenting. Having these videos forever is priceless to me, so I think I will be doing it forever, but who knows if YouTube is gonna be around forever.

The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.