Camera Quotes

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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and… — Mary Steenburgen
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I… — Dorothea Lange
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the… — Joan Didion
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more… — Galen Rowell
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it? — Edward Weston
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange
If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is… — Eve Arnold
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle. — Brandon Stanton
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The camera can photograph thought. — Dirk Bogarde
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only… — Minor White
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk… — Diane Arbus
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon… — Aaron Siskind
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second.… — Sebastiao Salgado
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create… — David Hurn

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