Cameras Quote by Thomas Merton

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination.…

— Ingmar Bergman

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see…

— Ernst Haas

There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea…

— Madonna Ciccone

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

— Garry Winogrand

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next…

— Galen Rowell

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 begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things…

— Bill Atkinson

I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around…

— Grant Mudford

A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about…

— Martine Franck