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Cameras Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They…
- 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…
- 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…
- Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what…
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
- Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
- The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the…
- The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
- Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
- Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
- Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,…
- The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
- 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;…
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