"Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's……" — Walker Evans

"Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty"

— Walker Evans

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26 Quotes by Walker Evans

Walker Evans has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by…
Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography…
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the…
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has…
That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is…
Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate…
I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't…
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics…

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More Camera Quotes

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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
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
I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant

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