T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.”
“The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.”
“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.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“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.”
“The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.”
“The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.”
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
“The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.”
Source: The ballad of sexual dependency
“The camera is as subjective as we are.”
Source: An Outline of Philosophy
“The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.”
“The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.”
“The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.”
“The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.”
Source: A Way of Seeing
“The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.”
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.”
“The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.”
“The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.”
“The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.”
“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.”
Source: Self Portrait
“The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.”
“The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.”
“The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.”
“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.”
“The camera is really the play-by-play person.”
“The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.”
Source: Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography
“The camera is the eye of history.”
“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.”
“The camera is the least important element in photography.”
“The camera is the slave to the actor.”
“The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.”
“The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world”
“The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.”
“The camera kind of finds things that the naked eye can't even see. By moving in a certain way, you're already telling part of the story.”
“The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.”
“The camera looks into your soul.”
“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
“The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.”
“The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.”
“The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.”
Source: In the Darkroom
“The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.”
“The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.”
“The camera photographs what's there.”
“The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.”
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.”
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.”
Source: About Looking
“The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.”
Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
“The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?”
Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston