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title: "1 Camera Like Quotes By Lee Friedlander"
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> [With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/with-a-camera-like-that-you-don-t-believe-you-re-in-the-masterpiece/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/lee-friedlander-25581_able_with-a-camera-like-that-you-don-t-believ_1273306.jpg)

## More by Lee Friedlander

> [I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/i-only-wanted-uncle-vernon-standing-by-his-own-car-a-hudson-on-a/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [The West to me is where the landscape is,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/the-west-to-me-is-where-the-landscape-is/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/photographs-are-so-loaded-with-information-they-re-remarkable-as-i/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/sometimes-just-the-facts-of-the-matter-make-it-interesting/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/i-suspect-it-is-for-one-s-self-interest-that-one-looks-at-one-s/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/it-fascinates-me-that-there-is-a-variety-of-feeling-about-what-i-do-i/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/when-you-take-a-picture-you-haven-t-a-clue-that-it-is-going-to-be/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/with-a-camera-like-that-you-don-t-believe-you-re-in-the-masterpiece/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/you-don-t-have-to-go-looking-for-pictures-the-material-is-generous/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/anything-that-looks-like-an-idea-is-probably-just-something-that-has/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/a-mysterious-intersection-of-chance-and-attention-that-goes-well/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/photographs-also-show-the-way-that-the-camera-sees-it-s-not-just-me/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/the-camera-is-not-merely-a-reflecting-pool-and-the-photographs-are/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [ \[Garry Winogrand\] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/garry-winogrand-was-a-bull-of-a-man-and-the-world-his-china-shop/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

> [I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-friedlander/i-always-wanted-to-be-a-photographer-i-was-fascinated-with-the/)

[Lee Friedlander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-friedlander/)

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