"Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and……" — Roland Barthes

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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
• I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. — Amy Adams
• It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -… — Jim Bakker
• I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
• I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
• Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? — Brigitte Bardot
• I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
• The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
• The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
• I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
• At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain

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