Cameras Quote by Frank Lentricchia

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time…

— Minor White

People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion…

— Sade Adu

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events,…

— Susan Sontag

“The camera is a remarkable thing, you think, with its ability to transform the mundane into an immortal moment able to travel through time,…

— Greg Bottoms

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of…

— Susan Meiselas

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

— Eve Arnold

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't…

— Erica Jong

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well…

— Elinor Carucci

If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from…

— Paul Feig

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and…

— John Steinbeck