Cameras Quote by Susan Sontag

I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly…

— Nan Goldin

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

— William S. Burroughs

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

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

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

— Duane Michals

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

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in…

— Marshall McLuhan

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

— Darren Rowse

When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.

— Andrea Modica

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes