A Quote by Alain de Botton

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 every click of the shutter.

Alain de Botton

Quote Topics

Anxiety Beauty Click Decline Every Itch Losing Our Over Photographs Place Possession Precious Scene Shutter Taking

Quote Author

Alain de Botton
English - Writer
Born: December 20, 1969

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts - and then we send them out into the world. At some moment, perhaps the moment we click the shutter, they are being released. From that moment on, they don't really belong to us anymore.

Maggie Steber

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Dale Carnegie

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

Maggie Steber

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

Alexey Brodovitch

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

Harold Feinstein

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

Robbie Robertson

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. ? It's there for your pleasure.

Diana Vreeland

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Janet Malcolm

I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.

Reggie Watts

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Jerzy Kosinski

There's nothing wrong with a little self-possession, there's beauty in taking time for yourself just because you feel like it, and there's nothing wrong with not divulging every secret!