Cameras Quote by Clarence John Laughlin

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well…

— Elinor Carucci

“A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding…

— Stanley Cavell

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

— Sebastiao Salgado

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski

“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

A camera gives you a purpose.

— Ryan McGinley

The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us…

— Walter Benjamin