Cameras Quote by Eikoh Hosoe

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

— Eikoh Hosoe

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of…

— James Welling

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

— Arnold Newman

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory

— Nateman

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality…

— Charles Sheeler

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed…

— Lee Friedlander

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait.…

— John Sexton

The camera can photograph thought.

— Dirk Bogarde

Photography is just light remembering itself.

— Jerry Uelsmann

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be…

— Yukio Mishima