Cameras Quote by Roman Vishniac

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

— Eli Siegel

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for…

— Gisele Freund

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should…

— David Hurn

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress