Camera and photography Quote by Alfred Eisenstaedt Download Open image “The important thing is not the camera but the eye.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camera and photography Cameras Eye Film photography Great photography Important Important things Inspirational Photograph Photography Photography and film Photography by photographers
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head. — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
“Jay Maisel always says to bring your camera, ‘cause it’s tough to take a picture without it. Pursuant to the above aforementioned piece of… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life. — Sylvia Hoeks Copy Share Image
We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera. — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I don’t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations of the… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
