Capturing A Moment Photography Quotes:

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

- Paul Caponigro

topic: Inspirational, Portraits, Looks, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

- Sam Abell

topic: Photography, Simplicity, Special, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

- Robert Adams

topic: Inspirational, Good Night, Photography, Great Photography, Camera And Photography

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Photography, Photographer, Brilliant, Great Photography, Landscape Photography

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

- Eudora Welty

source: Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

topic: Photography, Running, Snapshots, Great Photography, Camera And Photography

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Inspiring Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

- David Alan Harvey

topic: Photography, Looks, Feels, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

- Linda McCartney

topic: Inspirational, Moving, Moments, Inspirational Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Art, Believe, Landscape Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Photographer, Photograph, Landscape Photography, Camera And Photography

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

- Lisa Mangum

topic: Photography, Real, Needs, Capturing A Moment Photography

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

- August Sander

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Shadow, Great Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Photography, Pain, Photographer, Capturing A Moment Photography

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

- Ansel Adams

source: Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Creativity, Great Photography, Inspiring Nature

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Philosophical, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

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

- Tony Benn

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Photographer, Inspirational Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

- Ernst Haas

topic: Photography, Creativity, Cameras, Inspirational Photography, Street Photography

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Inspirational, Photography, Art, Great Photography, Camera And Photography

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Photography, Hate, Cameras, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Reality, Joy, Great Photography, Inspiring Photography

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Art, Creativity, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Photography, Past, America, Capturing A Moment Photography

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken

topic: Photography, Differences, Photograph, Inspiring Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.

- John Berger

topic: Photography, Opposites, May, Capturing A Moment Photography

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

- W. Eugene Smith

topic: Travel, Doe, World, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

- Richard Avedon

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

topic: Photography, People, Portraits, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography