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Camera Quotes by Edward Weston
- The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
- I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on…
- 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…
- 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…
- "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…
- 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…
- The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning…
- for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude…
- My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
More Camera Quotes
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this… — Christian Bale
- I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
- The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
- The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
- The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other… — John Berger
- I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy… — Anthony Bourdain
- At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I… — Anthony Bourdain
- I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
- I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
- Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
- If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining… — Kobe Bryant