Capturing A Moment Photography Quotes

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

Paul Caponigro

Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Sam Abell

Photography, Simplicity, Special

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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Robert Adams

Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Pablo Picasso

Photography, Photographer, Brilliant

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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty

Photography, Running, Snapshots

Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Karl Lagerfeld

Inspirational, Photography, Art

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Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

David Alan Harvey

Photography, Looks, Photographer

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If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

Linda McCartney

Inspirational, Photography, Moving

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Art, Believe

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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Photographer, Digital Photography

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

Aaron Siskind

Photography, Touching, Feelings

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I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

Lisa Mangum

Photography, Real, Needs

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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

August Sander

Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Susan Sontag

Photography, Pain, Photographer

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

Inspirational, Photography, Things In Life

"99 Things to Do between Here and Heaven" by Kathleen Long Bostrom, Peter Graystone, (p. 65), June 2, 2009.

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There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas

Photography, Creativity, Light

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Ambrose Bierce

Inspirational, Photography, Art

Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

John Steinbeck

Photography, Hate, Cameras

John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

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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

Photography, Reality, Joy

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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Art, Creativity

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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Susan Sontag

Photography, Past, America

Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.61, Macmillan

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There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Robert Heinecken

Photography, Differences, Photographer

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