Innovation Quote by Auguste Lumiere

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

— Rutherford B. Hayes

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

— Demetri Martin

I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work and therefore…

— Michel Gondry

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

— Robert Adams

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture…

— Nikola Tesla

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...

— Ansel Adams

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

— David Hockney

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been…

— Lynn Coady

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which…

— Ansel Adams

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head…

— Peter Diamandis