Camera Quotes

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

“People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.”
― Erica O'Rourke, Torn

“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this."
The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious).”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.”
― John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake

“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?”
― Craig Ferguson

“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story.”
― Béla Tarr

“My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles.”
― Himanshu Chhabra

“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, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

“When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.”
― Katherine Howe, The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen

“It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known.”
― Haresh Sippy

“Усі думали, що як тільки їм вдасться стати перед камерою, глядачі побачать їх справжніх. Невже вони нічого не навчилися, переглядаючи ті шоу, в які так прагнули потрапити? Невже не бачили, що між ними та публікою, на яку хотіли впливати, стоїть на заваді монтаж? А монтаж зробить з ними все, що йому забажається. Це буде не конче щось жорстоке. Монтаж може створити не лише негідника, а й героя. Але чого він точно ніколи не зробить то це не покаже нікого справжнім.”
― Ben Elton, Chart Throb

“Mr Police Officer, allow me to introduce you to my video camera.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello police officer, hello video camera!”
― Steven Magee

“Life is once, a Leica is forever.” Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“As we get older, the toys get more expensive…” - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“I am always surprised that a corrupt police department will be interviewed on camera!”
― Steven Magee

“Cameras are supposed to help you relive a moment, but if you never live the moment in the first place, because you are too busy taking pictures, how will you relive it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Photos are moments in the history. Reviving magical memories is weaving life with fantastic thread.”
― Indeewara Jayawardane

“…Essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“The camera connects me to the raw beauty of nature.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“My camera unlocks the secrets of the wild. It allows me to capture nature undisturbed.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“The photographer had a camera strapped around one leg, attached to a cable that ran up his trouser leg and into a pocket. He could squeeze a bulb in his pocket to take one picture which would be unnoticed in the glare of sparks and the horror generated by the chair.”
― Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“Magic unfolds when i kiss the camera.”
― Raigon Stanley

“This is not to say that before the invention of the camera men believed that everyone could see everything. But perspective organized the visual field as though that was indeed the ideal. Every drawing or painting that used perspective proposed to the spectator that he was the unique centre of the world. The camera - and more particularly the movie camera - demonstrated that there was no centre.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing