Cameras Quotes - Page 6

I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Modeling's terrifying to a lot of people. Standing in front of a camera is terrifying. I like a challenge.

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)

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

Things in the ring are definitely bigger, so that you can see them. But the movie world is completely different, and you have to hone things down because when that camera is so tight on you and so intimate and right up in your face, it's going to catch every little thing that you give it, and it's very easy to overdo it.

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.