Photography Cameras Quotes

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

Susan Sontag

#2. 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.

Elliott Erwitt

#3. I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

Ansel Adams

#4. I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Rosie O'Donnell

#5. Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.

Nick Kelsh

#6. Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#7. I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

Steven Wright

#8. Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!

Marius Vieth

#9. Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

Marius Vieth

#10. The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#11. In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

Ansel Adams

#12. I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

Bill Jay

#13. Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Wallace Stevens

#14. 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.

David Hurn

#15. The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

David Hockney

#16. The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Dirk Bogarde

#17. It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along ... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Susan Sontag

#18. I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Todd Walker

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

Ansel Adams

#20. 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.

Philip Jones Griffiths

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

Arnold Newman

#22. I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

Leonard Nimoy

#23. People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

Ashraf Saharudin

#24. I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

Chuck Close

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

Margaret Bourke-White

#26. Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Fay Godwin

#27. The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Graeme Le Saux

#28. There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and ... Photoshop

Tyra Banks

#29. The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

Edward Weston

#30. Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

David Hewson

#31. The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...

Freeman Patterson

#32. Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Susan Sontag

#33. I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

Eric Bana

#34. I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

David Suchet

#35. There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.

Ren Ng

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

Margaret Bourke-White

#37. When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

Minor White

#38. When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

Lauren Greenfield

#39. The camera basically is a license to explore.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

#40. I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

David Hockney

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

Minor White

#42. You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Ernst Haas

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

Nobuyoshi Araki

#44. The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Erica Jong

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

John Baldessari

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

Lisette Model

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

Lewis Baltz

#48. The camera is the least important element in photography.

Julius Shulman

#49. Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

Susan Sontag

#50. I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments.

Ren Ng

#51. Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

Todd Walker

#52. We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter

#53. But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

David Hockney

#54. The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.

Vilem Flusser

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

Arnold Newman

#56. You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always something beside it.

Thomas Ruff

#57. Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

Ruth Bernhard

#58. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange