Camera and photography Quote by Eve Arnold

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument…

— Eve Arnold

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

— George Stevens

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point…

— Margaret Bourke-White

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

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

— Antoine D'Agata