The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of…

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

— Clarence John Laughlin

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces.…

— Olafur Eliasson

I got into photography in sixth grade. My father let me use his camera and then got me my first Pentax K1000.

— Kelly Reichardt

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

— Susan Sontag

“Just like a painter’s brush or a sculptor’s chisel, you camera is a tool to create artwork. The camera does not take the photo,…

— Barbara Steinhoff Schneider

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

— Andre Kertesz

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use…

— Gordon Parks

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

— Zana Briski

Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you…

— Jonas Mekas

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up…

— Edward Ruscha

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I…

— Annie Leibovitz

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the…

— Antonin Kratochvil

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange