Cameras Quotes

1300 Cameras quotes by 936 unique authors

There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as… — Robert Adams
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There… — Jerry Uelsmann
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. — David Hurn
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
A camera has interesting ideas of its own. — John Szarkowski
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… — Edward Weston
"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… — Edward Weston
Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon. — Ruth Bernhard
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work.… — Edward Weston
The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the… — Margaret Bourke-White
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to… — Brooks Atkinson
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living. — Galen Rowell
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

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