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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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• How it pours, pours, pours,
  In a never-ending sheet!
  How it drives beneath the doors!
  How it soaks the passer's feet!
  How it rattles on the shutter!
  How it rumples up the lawn!
  How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
  From darkness until dawn.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Rain, Doors, Rivers

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dog, Life Is Too Short, Bad Relationship

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• My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Simple, Feels Just

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• One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

  Peter Brook

  Photography, Reality, Views

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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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• Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.617, Simon and Schuster

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• If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Clicks, Ifs

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• I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mirrors, Looks, Environment

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

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

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• Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

  Gilbert Highet

  Wind, Water, Stupidity

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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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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• It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Cameras, Presses

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

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• Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Mother, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.167, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cutting, Body, Bread

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1855). “Miscellanies: Ballads. The book of snobs. The tremendous adventures of Major Gahagan. The fatal boots. Cox's diary”, p.64

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• In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Two, Variables

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• Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

  Janet Macunovich

  Real, Garden, Long

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

  Matthew Modine

  Discipline, Portraits, Photograph

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• Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Anxiety, Losing

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Riches, Poverty, Cutters

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

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• The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

  Paul Strand

  Heart, Artist, Decision

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• For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Long, Steps

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• He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Missing, Bangs, Cameras

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Mar 23, 2012

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• What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Different, Pieces

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