Camera Quotes

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No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing… — Ken Rockwell
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes… — George Bernard Shaw
After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public… — Stan Brakhage
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. — Nigella Lawson
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always ask about cameras… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
I donâ€™t use an exposure meter. My personal advice is: Spend the money you would put into such an instrument for film. Buy yards of… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic… — Alex Raymond
I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they… — Jerry Seinfeld
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was… — Lasse Hallstrom
When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to… — Shannon Miller
I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread. — Willy Ronis
I treat the camera like a personâ€”I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them. — Cara Delevingne
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing… — Andreas Feininger
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could… — Gordon Parks
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I… — Gordon Parks
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind. — Theodore Robinson
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper… — Helmut Newton
The camera is the least important element in photography. — Julius Shulman

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