Awareness Quote by Barbara Steele

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

— James Mark Baldwin

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

— Barbara Steele

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness.…

— Stephen Shore

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.…

— Helmut Gernsheim

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames…

— David Chase

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them…

— David Attenborough

“Photography is the play of light, the dance of shadows, the song of exposure, and the story of the moment.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“Cameras give one person a thousand eyes. They take us light years away. Pictures introduce us to a million strangers. They let us travel…

— Katie Kacvinsky

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

— Amy Heckerling

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film,…

— Minor White

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski