Moment Capture Quotes

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

The best thing we've learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there's something about a moment and a vibe that's being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.