Viewfinder Quotes

#1. Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

James Stewart

#2. I remember it as if it were today ... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact ... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

Alberto Korda

#3. There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

John F. Kerry

#4. The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

William Friedkin

#5. If I don't love my character, I can't do it.

Tahar Rahim

#6. Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

Ernst Haas

#8. I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

Edward Weston

#9. I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

Doug Peacock

#10. You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

Kevin Hart

#11. It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.

Jack Canfield

#12. For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder ... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

Judy Fiskin

#13. I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.

Barbara Ess

#14. The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

William Graham Sumner

#15. A man without hands came to the door to sell me a photograph of my house. Except for the chrome hooks, he was an ordinary-looking man of fifty or so.

Raymond Carver

#16. Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she only knew once she peered through the viewfinder, as if the photograph had finally found her.

Whitney Otto

#17. I've heard people say that maybe we'd be better served had we lost. I was kind of wondering what profession they were in. I wouldn't want a lawyer representing me to think like that. I wouldn't want a doctor operating on me to think like that.

Russ Rose

#18. A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

Horst Faas

#19. Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Lou Reed

#20. It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

Dhani Harrison

#21. I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

Nick Kroll

#22. Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

Zana Briski

#23. I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

Amy Tan

#24. I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Eliot Spitzer

#25. One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#26. The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

Huston Smith

#27. I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

James Nesbitt

#28. If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

Garry Winogrand

#29. When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.

Hugh Howey

#30. ...At your age?' My ass. As long as I feed & support my family, do my job & do it well, I'll act any age as I damn well please.

Gerry Alanguilan

#31. Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

Josef Koudelka

#32. Wong is the most common surname in the world ... "
" ... John is the most common first name in the world."
"That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up."
"You know, I work with a John Wong.

David Wong