Cameras Quote by Vilem Flusser

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he…

— Alexey Brodovitch

In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and a visionary.…

— Peter C Bunnell

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

— Laura Gilpin

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

— Marshall McLuhan

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine…

— Whitney Otto

Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all…

— Arthur Rothstein

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it…

— Stephen Shore

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

“It's the photographer that creates the picture, not the camera.”

— Dan Eitreim