Capture Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to…

— Martine Franck

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all…

— Edward Weston

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take…

— Drew Barrymore

Photography is an act of love.

— Jay Maisel