Time Capture Quotes

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

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

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

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

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

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

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

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

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.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.