Shutters Quotes

71 Shutters quotes by 64 unique authors

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. — Jim Elliot
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
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… — Gustave Flaubert
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale
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
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… — Charles Baudelaire
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… — Charles Dickens
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… — Eric Hoffer
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,… — Annie Dillard
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… — Matthew Modine
Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me.… — Camille Claudel
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… — Paul Strand
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… — Alain de Botton
If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter. — Alexey Brodovitch
Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and… — John Paul Caponigro
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. — Christopher Isherwood
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. — Yousuf Karsh
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. — Jerzy Kosinski
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… — Audrey Tautou
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.… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
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,… — Thomas de Quincey
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.… — Jenny Downham
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… — Gregory Maguire

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