"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Max Baer, American Athlete

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"All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."

Charles Fort, American Writer

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"It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one."

Alice Cooper, American Musician

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"I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process."

Ted Shackelford, American Actor

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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I write, but I also act."

Eric Bogosian, American Actor

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"I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared."

Kelly Rowland, American Musician

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"At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them."

Laura Linney, American Actress

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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."

Photography

"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Detail

"Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick."

Time

"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

Work

"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality."

Interest

"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."

Heart

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy."

Joy

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

Earth

"Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

Work

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."

Perception