Capturing Moments Quotes

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

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

In selfie pictures, there is no human touch; it's all about the pose. But selfie videos have sound, actions, and emotions.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

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!'

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

When I’m photographing I see life.

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people's memories - you're there; you're present in someone's life.

I take a lot of pride in my photography.

The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.