Cameras Quote by Berenice Abbott

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera... notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

— Robert Smithson

“When I pull out the camera and look through the viewer, the world seems to sharpen. Focus. Not that terrible things aren’t still out…

— Dot Hutchison

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

The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision

— Myriam Leforestier

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

— Yousuf Karsh

“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty in things…

— Lance Reynald

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

— Alison Jackson

“The camera lets me see things in a different way. It's like I finally have perspective. I can't always say stuff right in words.…

— Eileen Cook

“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

The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an…

— Andreas Feininger