19th century Quote by David Hockney

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

— Quentin Tarantino

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

— Jean-Luc Godard

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

— Lucy Worsley

There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this…

— Robert Smithson

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head…

— Peter Diamandis

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

— David Hockney

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it…

— John Szarkowski

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

— Om Malik

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski

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

— Demetri Martin

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

— Auguste Lumiere

Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance…

— Helmut Gernsheim