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Cameras Quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap…
- The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his…
- It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
- The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
- 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…
- Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
- For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and…
- Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.
- The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.
- The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph…
- A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can…
- For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
More Cameras Quotes
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. — Amy Adams
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- 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
- Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? — Brigitte Bardot
- 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