Man Ray Quotes

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

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.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

The camera is a kind of license.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Either the camera will dance, or I will.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can't think of.

I thought using three cameras was a lot better than one, because you could see where you were going, where you'd been, and all kinds of things - more like life. I think photography has colored our vision. We're now in an area where it might break something. I think this is a time. I feel it. I don't know whether I'll be here long enough to experience it. I've no plans to leave yet.