Cameras Quotes

1300 Cameras quotes by 936 unique authors

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for… — Graeme Le Saux
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin
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
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving… — Sam Abell
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

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