Camera Quotes

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The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is… — Beaumont Newhall
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer… — Sam Abell
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation… — Susan Sontag
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. — Minor White
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make… — Edward Weston
... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his… — Robert Adams
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself..... — Freeman Patterson
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. — Lisette Model
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence… — Alexey Brodovitch
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. — Harold Evans
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera." — Margaret Bourke-White
Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's… — Yash Chopra
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good. — Wallace Stevens
If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me. — Bobcat Goldthwait
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. — Sarah Sutton
While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of… — Gordon Cooper

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