"People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve……" — Edward Weston
"People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting."
More Camera Quotes
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
- I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
- 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… — John Berger
- I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
- At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain
- I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
- I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
- Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
- If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant