Moments Quotes - Page 11

• Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Might, Vantage Point

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• I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Beach, Self, Portraits

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• I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

  George Osborne

  Party, Writing, California

  House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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• I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire.

  Grace Gealey

  Grateful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Taking a moment and a deep breath. Im truly thankful for everything life has shown me so far in my 20 years. I am so blessed. Just wow.

  Nina Agdal

  Blessed, Years, Wow

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2013

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• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Dying, Trying

  "That’s how he dooz it! One-on-One with Comedian JB Smoove". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts - and then we send them out into the world. At some moment, perhaps the moment we click the shutter, they are being released. From that moment on, they don't really belong to us anymore.

  Maggie Steber

  Children, Heart, Mind

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• I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Rip, Thinking, Hands

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• All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected.

  Edouard Boubat

  Photography, Sight, Encounters

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• I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

  Sam Smith

  House, Ocd, Checks

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• I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

  Dana Gould

  Live In The Moment, Trying, Too Late

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• Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.

  Bill Crow

  Blessed, Play, Space

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• There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.

  Matthew Healy

  Growing Up, Creative, Ambassadors

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• Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words and images continually intermingle and exchange one for the other.

  Victor Burgin

  Art, Memories, Association

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• One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved .

  Bill Hybels

  Simple, Nudge, Cooperation

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• Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

  Michael Lesy

  Important, Church, Might

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• When I'm in the studio, when I'm warm, when I'm what people call improvising, I feel a very special connection. I feel the most right. I don't want to become too mystic about this, but things feel as though they're in the best order at that particular moment.

  Twyla Tharp

  Order, People, Special

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• What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Pain, Joy

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• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  Bill Eppridge

  Thinking, Photographer, Spontaneous

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• Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

  Chris Hardwick

  Happiness, Stealing, Dominant

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.96, Penguin

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• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Distance, Heart, Views

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• Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Add, Metaphor, Photograph

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• What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

  Martine Franck

  Photography, Unexpected, Acclaim

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• You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

  James Nachtwey

  Fire, Snipers, That Moment

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• The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.

  Robert Doisneau

  Animal, Technique, Photographer

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