Optics Quote by Walter Benjamin

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

— James Agee

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but…

— Joan Fontcuberta

I think we always think of the camera - your eye, the first reveal. You know, you have to have that impact whether you…

— Robin Standefer

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

— Yousuf Karsh

“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human…

— Eudora Welty

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data…

— Leonard Mlodinow

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

“It never occurs to us that looking for the definition, origin, and nature of consciousness within the content of consciousness itself is the equivalent…

— William Tedford