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“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.”

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Author:Paul Strand

“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.”

Ifs Knows Mind Sometimes Actors Picks Sitting Machines Cameras Who You Are Staring Rays Vacant

Author:Albert Brooks

“The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.”

Giving Play Acting Source Machines Cameras Wire Giving Back

Author:Al Pacino

“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.”

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Author:Ernst Haas

“The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.”

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Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.”

Light Energy Loss Results Machines Cameras Photograph Solar Energy

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.”

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Author:Peter Beard

“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.”

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Author:Todd Walker

“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?”

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Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“I got a massive overdose of gamma radiation from the Xerox machine and just printing call sheets, you know? By the time I stepped in front of the camera, I was very comfortable. It was great.”

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Author:Cary Elwes

“I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.”

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Author:Stevie Wonder

“With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.”

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Author:Walker Evans

“Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.”

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Author:Minor White