Action Quote by Walter Benjamin

With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

A camera gives you a purpose.

— Ryan McGinley

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well…

— Elinor Carucci

“A camera is an opening in a box: that is the best emblem of the fact that a camera holding an object is holding…

— Stanley Cavell

By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of…

— Walter Benjamin

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

— Dave Eggers

The camera gives you some control.

— Ryan McGinley

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your…

— Margaret Bourke-White

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice…

— Bill Henson

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point…

— Margaret Bourke-White