Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Camera. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Camera Quotes and Sayings from 90 influential authors, including Zoe Sugg,Dorothea Lange,Patrick Demarchelier,James Wilson,Ernst Haas, for you to enjoy and share.

I don't really know how to work a camera. By Zoe Sugg Camera Work

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera. By Dorothea Lange Camera Tool Learning

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. By Patrick Demarchelier Camera Day Eyes

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. By James Wilson Photography People World Share Captured

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent ... the camera ... By Ernst Haas Living Man Photography Humanize Dependent

Just like a painter's brush or a sculptor's chisel, you camera is a tool to create artwork. The camera does not take the photo, the user takes the photo. The camera is not in control, the user is in control. Your camera is a tool and anyone who wants to take a great photo needs to learn how to use it. By Barbara Steinhoff Schneider Camera Photo Chisel Artwork Control

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas. By Arnold Newman Cameras Make Photographs Minds Hearts

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. By Susan Sontag Photographs Thicken Modern Mysterious Objects

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it. By Peter Diamandis Today Camera Smartphone Pocket Highquality

I am not a model the camera just went off by itself By Godfrey Model Camera

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. By Piet Zwart Possibilities Technique Totality Camera Expression

Cameras get in the way of seeing. By Le Corbusier Cameras

There's a natural set of constraints with mobile phones that force you to be a better photographer by acknowledging and observing the world around you. By Kevin Systrom Natural Set Constraints Mobile Phones

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying>ngng> to take a picture of a friend's young>ngng>, active daughter using>ngng> my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting>ngng> moments. By Ren Ng Ngng Cameras Loved Photography Frustrated

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way. By Margaret Bourke-White Instrument Camera Remarkable Saturate Subject

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with. By Ansel Adams Robot Time Pick Camera Inflexible

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do. By Lena Olin Man Camera Love Special Sensual

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot. By Edward Ruscha Camera Pick Shoot Tree Axe

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance. By Peter Brook Bare View Photography Zenlike Act

I do not see eye to eye with the camera. By Isak Dinesen Camera Eye

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say. By Roberto Rossellini Pen Imbecile Camera Ballpoint Worth

The best camera, is the one that you have with you! By Chase Jarvis Camera

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. By Susan Sontag Lust Possession Camera Inspire Akin

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. By James Agee Consciousness Time Camera Unassisted Weaponless

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. By Susan Meiselas Belong Point Camera Excuse Someplace

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way. By Diane Arbus Camera Kind Power Thing Edge

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door. By Michael Glawogger Door Presence Camera Opening

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. By Oscar Wilde Camera Photography Capture Experience Water

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. By Irving Penn Camera Part Stradivarius Stood Awe

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble. By Danny Lyon Investigation Travel Business Trouble Camera

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it. By Julia Margaret Cameron Beauty Arrest Camera Afraid

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree. By Edward Lucie-Smith Linking Coincidence Degree Camera Instrument

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera. By Gordon Parks Poverty Racism Wrongs Camera Weapon

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. By Lee Friedlander Mirror Tongue Camera Reflecting Pool

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. By Steve Coleman Image Exposes Camera Photographer

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments. By Rene Burri Giving Experiments Camera Magic Wand

To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order. By Edward S. Curtis Question Oftasked Camera Lens Soul

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. By Henri Cartier-Bresson Book Spontaneity Camera Sketch Instrument

Sometimes, cameras can't capture a scene like your brain does. But the use of apps can help get it just a little closer to reality. By Connor Franta Cameras Capture Scene Brain Reality

I loved photography but was frustrated by the limitations of cameras. When trying to take a picture of a friend's young, active daughter using my DSLR, it was impossible to capture the fleeting moments. By Ren Ng Cameras Dslr Loved Photography Frustrated

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back. By Rodrigo Santoro Taking Movie Back Shoot Camera

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone! By Amanda Peet Imbecile Technologically Phone Camera

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture. By Edmundo Desnoes Photography World Fooled Fraud Convincing

non-working camera inside in case what pictures By Rick Chesler Nonworking Pictures Camera Inside Case

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people. By Bob Dylan Rubs Wrong Thing People Frightening

The camera's not a camera, really. It's an open door we need to walk through. It's up to us to keep moving our feet. By Joe Mcnally Camera Feet Open Door Walk

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before. By Mary Ellen Mark Camera Gave Sense Connection Lives

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera. By Joseph Goebbels Experience People Camera Individual Solely

You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you. By Uzo Aduba Camera Thing Living Breathing Steel

My camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere. By Patti Smith Friend Camera

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded. By Erica Jong Transformation Camera Creates Magical Narrative

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph. By Susan Sontag Interventions Sense Situation Articulated Events

There is a camera is between a man and a woman. By Nobuyoshi Araki Woman Camera Man

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. By John Steinbeck Cameras Hate

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. By Richard Avedon Cameras Hate Interfere Work Eyes

A webcam that Iceland's environmental agency had set up. By Elizabeth Kolbert Iceland Webcam Environmental Agency Set

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. By Sally Mann Hand Nature Photography Changed Advent

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. By Ansel Adams Photography Communications Offers Perception Interpretation

Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side. By Erin Davie Side Camera Easy Quick Indulge

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse. By Rene Burri Racehorse Digital Camera Check

Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it. By Stanley Cavell Camera Body Communication Examination Human

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution. By Philippe Kahn Cameraphones Revolution Root Citizenjournalism

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video). By Mokokoma Mokhonoana Video Photos Record Happening Busy

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera. By Nan Kempner Camera People Truth Loves Love

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it. By Andy Griffith Feel Hard Eyes Supposed Camera

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. By Jacques-Henri Lartigue Photography Thing Magic Odors Frightening

The camera is the eye of history. By Mathew Brady History Camera Eye

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you! By Arthur Cohn Camera Prevents

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot. By Ren Ng Basically Shot Camera Regular Time

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash. By Henri Cartier-Bresson Gun Kiss Sketchbook Camera Machine

Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation. By Luigi Ghirri Great Photography Childhood Small Appearances

On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky. By Taraji P. Henson Ipad Camera Fool Postit Notes

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!' By Nicki Minaj Hate Camera Cameras Phones Friend

You don't take a picture, you make a picture. By Ansel Adams Picture Make

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. By Janet Malcolm Camera Simply Supple Powerful Instrument

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached. By Nina Berman Commitment Camera Close Burden Attached

Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from. By D. A. Pennebaker Camera Song Secondhand Draw Picture

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost. By George Eastman Photography Lost Brought Reach Human

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet. By Keith Sweat Nowadays Internet Phone Camera Careful

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. By Ansel Adams Photography Investigation Outer Worlds World

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. By Clint Eastwood Kids Notice Work Ready Turn

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name. By Marshall Mcluhan Museum Cameras Camera Tend Photography

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself By Ai Weiwei Reality Practice Photography Longer Recording

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination. By Lucy R. Lippard Domination Camera Weapon Wars

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. By Ken Rockwell Photographs Camera Job Making

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher. By Robert Polidori Decipher Point Camera Question Picture

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph. By Man Ray Camera Make Picture Subject Photographer

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. By Jay Maisel Camera Looked Thing Describe Great

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh. By Edward Weston Life Flesh Camera Recording Rendering

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. By Mary Ellen Mark Nowadays Postproduction Computers Shots Created

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself. By Minor White Selfgrowth Camera Selfdiscovery Artist Thing

Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know. By David Levi Strauss Photography Lightwriting Language Images Patterns

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this. By Ree Drummond Camera Occurred Talk

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character. By Tony Scott Heads Camera People Character Techniques

I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be. By Lynsey Addario Companion Found Comforting Camera Moments

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things. By Harry Lloyd Camera Things Technical

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera By Philippe Halsman Camera Head Photographer Important

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive. By Arthur Tress Disorder Urge Photograph Activated Biological

For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr and other photosharing websites) By Joachim Schmid Globally Photography Making Time History

How do you photograph data? By Rick Smolan Data Photograph