“My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.”

It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they’re not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It’s a dream that won’t come true.

I don’t think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that’s all I would have asked for, for I know I’m worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

In love, there’s sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Your heart can capture pain and love at the same time.

Friends capture you best.

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

India-Pakistan matches always capture the imagination of people from either side.

The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Photos can’t capture all of the fun.