Moments Quotes - Page 7

• But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, Gentleman, Cameras

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• I miss dating only for that final moment you kiss goodnight, watch her get out of your car and run into the police station.

  Dane Cook

  Running, Kissing, Dating

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• For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Perfection, Important

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Girl, Memories, Home

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• The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

  Robert Doisneau

  Animal, Technique, Photographer

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• [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

  Pierre Mac Orlan

  Photography, Artist, Documentaries

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• The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)

  Pierre Mac Orlan

  Photography, Adventure, Mind

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• When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Flower, Opening Up, Black

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• If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Believe, Dark

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.46

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• It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

  Greg Behrendt

  Let It Go, Cards, Ass

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.140, Harmony

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• I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.

  Jennifer Beals

  Fashion, Army, Gay

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

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• I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.

  Rudolf Bing

  Morning, Night, Enough

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• There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

  Eric Cantona

  Acting, France, Cameras

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• Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.

  Ariana Grande

  Cutting, People, Live In The Moment

  Interview with Nikki Katz, www.alloy.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Smart, Thinking, Way

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

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• If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Car, Steps

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• When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen without a referendum. And we are just as right that the EU has more power in our national life than it should, and I believe as strongly as I ever have that when the right moment comes this party should set out to reduce it.

  William Hague

  Party, Believe, Law

  Conservative party conference, Manchester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Giving, Office

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• While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Photography, Cutting, Doe

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• Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.

  George Lopez

  Long, Gone, Life Is

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• The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

  Jacques Lacan

  Eye, Evil, Movement

  Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.164, Karnac Books

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• If there's a cutaway, you need to get it then because it's only going to last [a few moments]. You have to edit the movie as you're shooting it in your head and communicate with your crew about how it's going to work. While making a movie, you have the luxury of storyboards and a script and a bigger crew and actors. I mean, it's so much easier.

  George Ratliff

  Mean, Luxury, Needs

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Home, Body

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• If you ask me about music and how things should be played, I believe that music-making is the combination of having learned how to do something right, what one feels is right to do in the moment, and the way the audience is listening.

  Michala Petri

  Believe, Listening, Way

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• It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

  Brit Marling

  Fall, Character, Losing Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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