Snapshots Quotes

• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Photographer

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

  Richard Bach

  Judging, Decision, Joy

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• Every life has one true love snapshot.

  Mitch Albom

  One True Love

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• The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

  Aldous Huxley

  Memories, Book

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Never pose your subjects. Let them move about naturally... All great photographs today are snapshots.

  Martin Munkacsi

  Moving, Today, Photograph

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• What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn't it be nice if eternity captured you smiling?

  Robert Breault

  Smile, Nice, Life Is

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• Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

  Matt Hardy

  Inspirational, Photography, Portraits

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• A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

  Dieter Appelt

  Long, Return, Photographer

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• I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

  Lisette Model

  Love, Photography, Truth

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Knowing, Cameras

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• Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wind

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• The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Memories, Seems

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.43, Hachette UK

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

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Fun, Looks, Trends

  "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.

  Sara Blakely

  Motivational, Powerful, Moving

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• Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Taken, Men, Trying

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• Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

  Gerhard Richter

  Achieve, States, Pure

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

  Charles Simic

  People

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• As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Air, Car

  Nicholas Sparks (2001). “A Bend in the Road”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.

  Lisette Model

  Imperfection, Style, Lovers

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

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• Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

  Eudora Welty

  Understanding, Lucky, Moments

  Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather them and put them under one roof, under one cover, so I could document my life in a series of snapshots.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Moving, Writing, Disappear

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Past, Reality

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• I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Morning

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

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• In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

  Bill Brandt

  Expression, Trying, Portraits

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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