Camera Quotes

The camera is a kind of license.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.  It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

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

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

photography

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

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust.  And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

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

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

film