Always Quote by Irving Penn

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

— Irving Penn

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 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 seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

— James Agee

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

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

— George Stevens

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that…

— Eve Arnold

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

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the…

— Henry Fox Talbot

The camera photographs what's there.

— Jack Nicholson

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