Camera Quotes

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I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember… — Richard Avedon
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that… — Edward Weston
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an… — Galen Rowell
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all… — Frederick H. Evans
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as… — Robert Adams
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There… — Jerry Uelsmann
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
A camera has interesting ideas of its own. — John Szarkowski
The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished… — Edward Weston
"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach… — Edward Weston
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon. — Ruth Bernhard
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the… — Margaret Bourke-White
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to… — Brooks Atkinson
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living. — Galen Rowell

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