Camera Quotes

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation.

~ Steven Magee

PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watching everything, and you can't lie to it, or it will know.PERCIVAL: My girl is so clever! No, the camera witnesses the story and records it, but it is outside the story. Like a very tiny god with one big, dark eye.... Which of [the characters] is the authority? Who controls how the story is told? And who is the audience, for whom all these wonderful things are meant?SEVERIN: They are all telling the story to me.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

~ Don Chadwick

My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles.

~ Himanshu Chhabra

Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

~ Ashraf Saharudin

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

Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer

~ Ewlyn Fernando

He'd never need a camera to remember this, and damn if he ever wanted anyone but him to see her like she was at this moment.

~ Kelly Moran

Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory (POAAT) is why you need to video record the police before they shoot you. Always start the video camera at the first contact, as it can go sour at any time and without warning.

~ Steven Magee

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Like the feeling of a carbonated beverage slipping down the throat, the bubbles rushing and popping as they make their descent, the air around a departed spirit fizzles, dissipating from a thick electric presence to an ephemeral blink of light and color, like the aftereffect of too many flash cameras going off at once.

~ Eda J. Vor

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

To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world.I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images.

~ Viktor Tatarczuk

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

~ Marius Vieth

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.

~ Arnold Newman

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

~ Deeksha Mittal

When you press the shutter, time won't see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment... and thats the best Farewell for that moment.

~ Sagar Gosavi

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.

~ Doug Bartlow

When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

~ Mike Figgis

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

~ Steve Erickson

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

~ Kevin Systrom

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

~ Patrick Demarchelier

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

~ Geri Halliwell

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

~ Rohit Shetty

Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.

~ Kevin Systrom

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

~ Martin O'malley

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

~ Mario Testino

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

~ Dorothea Lange

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

~ Chow Yun-Fat

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

~ Harry Dean Stanton

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

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

~ Orson Welles

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

~ Ben Shapiro