Cameras Quote by Alexey Brodovitch

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free…

— Paul Caponigro

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

— Lisette Model

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they…

— Ruth Bernhard