Moments Photography Quotes

#1. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

Rebecca McNutt

#2. Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.
Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

#3. I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

Keith Carter

#4. Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#6. As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

Roni Horn

#7. 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

#8. If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

Joyce Tenneson

#9. Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it.

Sahara Sanders

#10. I give the moment permanence.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

#11. The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#12. Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.

Beaumont Newhall

#13. I like small things, I like small moments that are almost elliptical, that are not necessarily linear; they're natural things that happen in the world, but if you look at them from a slight angle there's more than meets the eye.

Keith Carter

#14. It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.

George A Tice

#15. Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

#16. The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

David Hurn

#17. Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

Cornell Capa

#18. Capture the sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.

Sebastiao Salgado

#20. I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Rosie O'Donnell

#21. I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

Ren Ng

#22. Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#23. For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

John Sexton

#24. He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#25. Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

Jeffrey Kluger

#26. If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

Galen Rowell

#28. The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Matthew Knisely

#29. A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams

#30. With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#31. Be in love with the moments of your life.

Matthew Knisely

#32. Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

Eadweard Muybridge

#33. There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.

Sebastiao Salgado