Capturing Memories Quotes

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

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

It's very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it's just you and the lens. It's something that has been a very stable, consistent thing in my life.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.

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

There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

It's New York City, you want to be shown in Times Square. you want your picture there. You want those kind of things. To inspire people, that's really what it's about.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.