Cameras Quote by James Agee

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

— Elia Kazan

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick…

— David Shrigley

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has…

— John Berger

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

— Peter Beard

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

— Lee Friedlander

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

— Susan Sontag

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured…

— Lily Tomlin

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

— Juergen Teller

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

— John Gunther

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

— Tod Papageorge

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

— Peter Gabriel