Cameras Quotes

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

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

Modeling's terrifying to a lot of people. Standing in front of a camera is terrifying. I like a challenge.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

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

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.