Cameras Quote by Ralph Steiner

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

— Ernst Lubitsch

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

— Mary Ellen Mark

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and…

— Ken Rockwell

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat,…

— Keith Carter

“Photography is not purely a mechanical process. You need to know how to look, where to point the camera, and when to press the…

— Andy Karr

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the…

— Luc Sante

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely,…

— John Filo

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and…

— Graciela Iturbide