Able Quote by Lee Friedlander

You see the world much better through a camera.

— Louis Malle

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

— Peter Beard

Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon…

— Arthur Tress

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

— Margaret Bourke-White

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

— Edward Weston

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

— 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

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect…

— Todd Walker

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

— Yousuf Karsh