Werner Herzog
[Filmmaker, b. 1942, Sachrang, Germany, lives in Munich and Los Angeles.]
It’s like death staring at you when you look at a camera.
Aleksander Rodchenko
[Artist, designer, architect, b. 1891, St. Petersburg, d. 1956, Moscow.]
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.
Wright Morris
[Writer and photographer, b. 1910, Central City, Nebraska, d. 1998, Mill Valley, California.]
It is the camera that takes the picture; the photographer is a collaborator.
Thomas Demand
[Photographer, b. 1964, Munich, Germany, lives in Los Angeles.]
[Cameras] start to interpret life to us, which is a tautological circle, and I wonder how long you can feed yourself with yourself.
Paul Caponigro
[Photographer, b. 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, lives in Cushing, Maine.]
I don’t trust any camera you can’t make out of wood.
William Klein
[Photographer, b. 1928, New York, lives in Paris.]
Quite deliberately, I did the opposite to what was usually done. I thought that an absence of framing, chance, use of the accidental and a different relationship with the camera would make it possible to liberate the photographic image. There are some things that only a camera can do. The camera is full of possibilities as yet unexploited. But that is what photography is all about. The camera can surprise us. We must help it do so.
Roberto Rossellini
[Director and writer, b. 1906, Rome, d. 1977, Rome.]
The camera’s a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it’s not worth anything if you don’t have anything to say.
Donald McCullin
[Photographer, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, lives in Somerset, England.]
I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.
