Cameras Quote by Christopher Isherwood

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

— Christopher Isherwood

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

— Christopher Isherwood

The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original, interesting, and…

— Jean Pigozzi

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by…

— Douglas Huebler

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

— Janet Malcolm

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

When I record, it's this very precious and insular thing.

— Mitski

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

“I hate taking pictures,’ he says. ‘I feel that if you pick up a camera you take yourself out of the moment. You’re no…

— James Wallman

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

— Don McCullin

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and…

— Dwight Yoakam