Captured Moment Quotes

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Once you get a trick on film, it's there forever.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.