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I always carry my camera with me. -- David Karp
I'm going to miss my best friends - my cameras. -- Craig Kilborn
I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions. -- Beeban Kidron
...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere. -- Patti Smith
I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread. -- Willy Ronis
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera. -- Kim Weston
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. -- Mike Figgis
If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story. -- Woody Guthrie
The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera, -- Eddie Adams
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. -- Minor White
The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. -- Ray Metzker
Nonni's Biscotti Bites fit perfectly in my camera bag for a spontaneous break between photo shoots. -- Nigel Barker
In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. -- Sebastiao Salgado
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. -- Henry Rollins
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. -- Steve McCurry
When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible. -- Elle Schneider
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. -- Margaret Bourke-White
The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light. -- Jane Bown
I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it. -- Suki Waterhouse
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point. -- Joe McNally
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express. -- Danae Elon
It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. -- Sarah Miller
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations. -- Julius Shulman
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. -- Dorothea Lange
My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. -- Yousuf Karsh
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. -- Bill Frakes
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera. -- Martin Parr
I never had a "project." I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see. -- Helen Levitt
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world. -- Patti Smith
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. -- Anthony Bourdain
When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along. -- Elliott Erwitt
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?' -- Susan Isaacs
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. -- Helmut Newton
I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera. -- Eve Arnold
If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. -- Al Green
I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting. -- Douglas Kirkland
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. -- Annie Leibovitz
For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life. -- Steve McCurry
There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera. -- Nan Goldin
I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on Pi and Requiem. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films. -- Darren Aronofsky
I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. -- Alice Sebold
I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera. -- Larry Clark
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I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. -- Gordon Parks
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. -- Mary Ellen Mark
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph. -- Neil Gaiman
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic. -- Ryan McGinley
The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens. -- Justine Kurland
In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. -- Lisa Snowdon
Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make. -- James Wan
I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. -- Joel Sternfeld
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. -- Galen Rowell
I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it. -- Shilo Shiv Suleman
If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. -- Larry Clark
Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.' -- Leelee Sobieski
I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all. -- Ben Shahn
I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. -- Alfred Eisenstaedt
I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker. -- Drew Barrymore
So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera. -- John Sexton
One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house. -- Steven Wright
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls... -- Woody Guthrie
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most -- Philippe Halsman
I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras. -- Leonard Nimoy
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. -- Philippe Halsman
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature. -- Dennis Stock
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that. -- C. J. Wilson
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin. -- Arnon Goldfinger
I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?' -- Mary Ellen Mark
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck. -- Alice Englert
Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face. -- Margot Robbie
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. -- Alfred Eisenstaedt
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. -- Adam Baldwin
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time. -- Win Butler
I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys. -- Nick Woodman
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. -- Andre Kertesz
Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. -- Joshua Leonard
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. -- Howard Hawks
One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act. -- Angie Everhart
I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. -- Amy Adams
Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing. -- Marcel Hirscher
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried. -- Robert Drew
I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures. -- Jeff Bezos
I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing. -- Dario Argento
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!' -- Nicki Minaj
Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? -- Craig Ferguson
I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it. -- Jeff Tremaine
My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera. -- Giles Duley
I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good. -- Ryan Ross
I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. -- Tyler Perry
My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places. -- Jamel Shabazz
I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. -- Lewis Baltz
Im a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera. -- Libba Bray
When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful. -- Michael Strahan
I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera. -- Libba Bray
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket. -- Andy Warhol
I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. -- Adam Yauch
My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself. -- Andre Kertesz
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. -- Sarah Sutton
I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself. -- Dane Cook
I never knew my titties was bigger than Pamela So paparazzi flickin be flickin their camera -- Nicki Minaj
So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook. -- Anthony Edwards
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life. -- Jennifer Garner
My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles. -- Himanshu Chhabra
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside. -- Bill Jay
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. -- Nan Goldin
Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. -- Jolene Purdy
I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera. --
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. -- Annie Leibovitz
I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. -- Patrick Demarchelier
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie, -- Al Pacino
I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera. -- Pauletta Pearson Washington
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. -- Gordon Parks
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. -- David Souter
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. -- Thomas Jane
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. -- Beau Bridges
It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt. -- S.A. Tawks

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