(321 quotes found)
“No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”
Edward Steichen
“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
Yousuf Karsh
“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.”
W. Eugene Smith
“I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.”
Mitch Hedberg
“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”
Ansel Adams
“I was extravagant in the matter of cameras Ð anything photographic Ð I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest Ð or without.”
Edward Weston
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.”
Norman Parkinson
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
Christopher Isherwood
“I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.”
Shania Twain
“The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...”
Berenice Abbott