Top 111 Snapshot Quotes & Sayings

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Every life has one true love snapshot.

Novels can be a snapshot of a moment in time, or several moments in time, and as a reader, that's what I really like, and as a writer, it's what I'm drawn to also.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

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

When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

A CD is only a snapshot of the songs at a given time.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.

I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take the picture. You don't need to think about anything. People in the street are not going to wait for you with a big camera. They would freak out. With a snapshot camera, they are comfortable.

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.

Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)

I've met people that I've seen on Instagram and thought 'Oh my God! You don't look like the person I follow on Instagram.' It's important to remember it's a snapshot of someone's life.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

If there remain places on the planet that are un-known, unspoilt corners, a laboratory for evolution still exists - a snapshot of what the rainforests, polar deserts and high mountains were once like, before man.

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

Sequencing DNA on the ISS will enable NASA to see what happens to genetic material in space in real time, rather than looking at a snapshot of DNA before launch and another snapshot of DNA after launch and filling in the blanks.

I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of the air, what music was playing, or who was talking to me, or who was looking over my shoulder and what conversations we had and the smells of the earth and the time of year it was. It's all there for me in a way that we don't get looking at a snapshot. Most of us look back at a snapshot from ten years ago and say, where was that? We don't even remember where we were.

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites)

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?

I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.