Cameras Quotes
1300 Cameras quotes by 936 unique authors
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It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to…
— J. G. Ballard
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
— Pat Conroy
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To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
— Susan Sontag
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Off-camera lives are unverifiable.
— Don DeLillo
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We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
— Grant Morrison
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you…
— Ansel Adams
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If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day…
— Nicole Krauss
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For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he…
— John Dunning
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Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on…
— Nick Cave
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He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.…
— Sarah Dessen
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
— Dorothea Lange
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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
— Woody Guthrie
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It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson,…
— George W. Bush
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There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.
— George W. Bush
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It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A…
— Maira Kalman
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It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,…
— Jeff Lindsay
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One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping…
— Suzanne Collins
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I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
— Christopher Isherwood
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Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.
— Natsuki Takaya
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For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related…
— Roland Barthes
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