Juergen Teller Quotes

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The camera photographs what's there.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

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.

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.