Moments Quotes - Page 11

• I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

  Bellamy Young

  Degrees, Tape, Used

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.

  Matthew Healy

  Growing Up, Creative, Ambassadors

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• Taking a moment and a deep breath. Im truly thankful for everything life has shown me so far in my 20 years. I am so blessed. Just wow.

  Nina Agdal

  Blessed, Years, Wow

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2013

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• Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new and greater heights in the future.

  Katherine Webb

  Girl, Opportunity, Usa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

  Bill Hybels

  Simple, Nudge, Cooperation

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• Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.

  Bill Crow

  Blessed, Play, Space

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• What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life-here, now, to this? Was all my youth-the paper route after school, the stolen moments in the back seats of borrowed cars, the football workouts, the cramming for finals-meant to end this way, dying in a muddy paddy?

  William Broyles, Jr.

  Football, Workout, School

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• Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

  Michael Lesy

  Important, Church, Might

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• A gentleman who for reasons of chivalry I shall not mention, but who occupied grand office, and who had taken grandly of wine and allowed veritas to overcome him, went up to the Prime Minister and told her he had always fancied her, to which the Prime Minister replied, "Quite right - you have very good taste but I just don't think you would make it at the moment.

  Nicholas Fairbairn

  Taken, Wine, Thinking

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• I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

  Doug Aitken

  Views, Indecisive, Fascinated

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• What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Pain, Joy

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• It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.

  Victor Burgin

  Creativity, Skills, Waiting

  Victor Burgin, Alexander Streitberger (2009). “Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin”, p.64, Leuven University Press

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• Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

  Victor Burgin

  Art, Memories, Association

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• A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

  Rene Burri

  Buttons, Photograph, Presses

  "Photographer René Burri's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2010.

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• What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

  A. D. Coleman

  Looks, Tools, Photographer

  A. D. Coleman (1998). “Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture”, Univ of New Mexico Pr

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• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Distance, Heart, Views

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• [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Forever, Vision, Photograph

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• Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Add, Metaphor, Photograph

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• Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to have half a dozen shots in my mind. Probably I have seen them many times under different conditions and I have been thinking about them. The moment shall come when I shall go back to them and make the photographs.

  Max Dupain

  Thinking, Mind, Different

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• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  Bill Eppridge

  Thinking, Photographer, Spontaneous

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• I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.

  Horst Faas

  Confused, War, Mistake

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• What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

  Martine Franck

  Photography, Unexpected, Acclaim

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• To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments are the greatest joys in my life, as if I were undressing the most beautiful woman in the world - that is, if she will allow herself be undressed. If the photo is a success, it means that she was willing. If not, it has been a lovely dream.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Beautiful, Running, Dream

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• [My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them.

  Mario Giacomelli

  Beautiful, Photography, Mother

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• What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Photography, Art, Views

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