Brain Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

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

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

— Demetri Martin

The camera is as subjective as we are.

— Bertrand Russell

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and…

— Om Malik

All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This…

— Sam Haskins

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

“As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches…

— Ted Agon

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how…

— Ernst Haas

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can…

— John Steinbeck