A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Eudora Welty
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. - Marc Riboud

  2. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorothea Lange

  3. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. - Aleksandar Hemon

  4. Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

  5. A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw

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  3. I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself, every time, all vanity. As an adolescent I was a slammer of drawers and a packer of suitcases. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I was responsible...

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  5. Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children...

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