I pity the fool who messes with my plywood shutters,

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted…

— Caroline B. Cooney

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

— Christopher Isherwood

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out.…

— Orison Swett Marden

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having…

— Jeff Vespa

Tea - the cups that cheer but not inebriate.

— William Cowper

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters…

— Thomas de Quincey

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman…

— Christopher Isherwood

Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market.…

— William Henry Jackson

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

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The…

— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children have been…

— Suzanne Collins

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely,…

— John Filo