The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the…

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.”

— Pamelar Hickinson

“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.”

— Kellie Elmore

“It isn’t the pen—it’s the writer; it isn’t the road—it’s the runner that counts.”

— Dr. Shad Helmstetter

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up…

— Shirley Jackson

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

— Ansel Adams

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot…

— Elliott Erwitt

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday,…

— Ida Løkås

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested…

— Keanu Reeves

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

— Philippe Halsman