Cameras Quotes - Page 12

• I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive.

  Fredrik Bond

  Running, Guy, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.

  Eliot Lewis

  Beautiful, Light, Trying

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• I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.

  Bryan Singer

  Giants, Knows

  "Bryan Singer Talks Big Visual Effects, 3D, Bringing a Fairy Tale to Life on a Grand Scale, and More on the Set of JACK THE GIANT SLAYER". Group interview, collider.com. January 31, 2013.

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• When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

  Patti Smith

  Self, World, Rooms

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• ...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

  Patti Smith

  My Friends

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• As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Long, Bewilderment

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• A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.

  Robert Smithson

  Photography, Artist, Years

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.371, Univ of California Press

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• Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Faces, Humans

  Robert Smithson (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, Univ of California Press

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• Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.

  Robert Smithson

  Loss, Light, Energy

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.373, Univ of California Press

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• I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

  Daniel Tosh

  Believe, Space, Desert

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• Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

  Daniel Tosh

  Depressing, Russia, Video

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• It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

  Alicia Witt

  Real, People, Made

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

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• 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)

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Moving, Firsts, Twenties

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• It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

  David Douglas Duncan

  Fun, Simple, Typewriters

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• Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)... the circumstance that photography was not invented earlier remains the greatest mystery in its history... It had apparently never occurred to any of the multitude of artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were in the habit of using the camera obscura to try to fix its image permanently.

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Photography, Artist, Trying

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• I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own domain (I say a cow because a human being I would not trust). If the camera was programmed to go off at an indeterminate series of moments, the samplings would be fantastic.

  Frederick Sommer

  Cities, Would Be, Sampling

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• I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

  Lisette Model

  Photography, Ambition, People

  Ann Thomas, Lisette Model, National Gallery of Canada (1990). “Lisette Model”, National Gallery of Canada

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

  Weegee

  Beautiful, Murder, Affair

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• Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

  John Baldessari

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Attitude, Differences, People

  "Reality Clicks" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2002.

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• The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.

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• We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

  Piet Zwart

  Photography, Mean, Eye

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• The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Real, Unique

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

  Bill Viola

  Paris, Able, Bottles

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