Cameras Quote by Gordon Parks

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I…

— Gordon Parks

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point…

— Gordon Parks

Photography was my choice of weapons.

— Gordon Parks

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point…

— Carrie Mae Weems

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business,…

— Danny Lyon

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was…

— Steve McCurry

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting…

— Forest Whitaker

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very,…

— Carrie Mae Weems

The fight for photography became my life.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

— Andre Kertesz

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice…

— Bill Henson