Cameras Quotes

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  My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Dream, Inspiration, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

  John Berger

  Photography, Memories, Burden

  1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.

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

  Harold Evans

  Photography, Lying, Accessories

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• 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.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Reality, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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  Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Sound, Ridiculous, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Men, Steps, Certain

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

  Paul Weyrich

  Believe, School, Order

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• I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy, Obnoxious

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• The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

  Ajay Naidu

  Thinking

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• I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Gone

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

  John Steinbeck

  Photography, Hate, Literature

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

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• 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

  Photography, Art, Soul

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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• The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

  Susan Sontag

  Women, Reality, People

  New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974

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• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  Dan Quayle

  People, Looks, Television

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• If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Party, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

  Christine Lahti

  Love, Age, Grew

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• I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

  Jennie Garth

  Ability, Knows, Fronts

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• There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Adam

  Attributed in "The Everything Digital Photography Book" by E.T. Schoch, (p. 105), 2002.

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• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Attitude, Empathy

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

  "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Twelve

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• There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Interview with David Sheff, davidsheff.com. March 1983.

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