Cameras Quotes

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Only photograph what you love.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

The camera can photograph thought.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

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