Shutters Quotes

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Cameras, Photographer

Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub

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I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

Charles Baudelaire

Summer, Spring, Autumn

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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Edward Steichen

Photography, Art, Done

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When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

Philippe Halsman

Real, Fall, Ideas

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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Christopher Isherwood

Thinking, Cameras, Passive

Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)

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Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography, People, Boss

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It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

Robert E. Lee

Walking Away, Doors, Feelings

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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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The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

Marshall McLuhan

Mean, Cameras, Doe

Arts in society, Volume 3, (p. 242), 1964.

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Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

William Cowper

Cheer, Tea Drinking, Cups Of Tea

'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Eric Hoffer

Dream, Lying, Wrath

Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.11, Harper Collins

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It's a lot more than clicking the shutter...it's the ideas, it's the visual voice, it's the telling the story, it's kind of going beyond that initial thing that just means you happened to be there at the right time.

Ron Haviv

Mean, Ideas, Voice

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When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

Charles Spurgeon

Christian, Boys, Men

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In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Jerzy Kosinski

Literature, Moments, Photograph

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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

Douglas Coupland

Sweet, Hurt, Cameras

Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.28, Hachette UK

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

David Hockney

Photograph, Fractions, Scrutiny

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The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

Jenny Downham

Kings, Sleep, Circles

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When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it.

Gregory Maguire

Light, Childhood, Soul

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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

Thomas de Quincey

Rain, Wind, Tea

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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

Matt Taibbi

Home, Fighting, Thinking

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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Play, Two, House

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

Christopher Isherwood

Cameras, Someday, Fixed

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I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway services, the odour of petrol at petrol stations, rolling down little slopes. I hate it when you tread in a puddle and the water soaks your socks.

Audrey Tautou

Summer, Hate, Light

"Here's looking at you, kid" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2001.

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In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.

Nicole Krauss

Opposites, Shadow, Trying

Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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