Cameras Quote by Hannah Hoch

The camera can photograph thought.

— Dirk Bogarde

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography…

— Frank Horvat

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you…

— Garry Winogrand

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being…

— Marc Riboud

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed…

— Elia Kazan

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

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

A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his…

— Edouard Boubat

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

To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable…

— Eikoh Hosoe

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the…

— Lance Ito

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you…

— Thomas Merton