Dorothea Lange Quotes

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

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

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

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

Fashion photographers are the new painters.

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

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

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!'

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Photography helps people to see.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see my life.

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to 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 is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully-and the evidence that other photographers have done so-that keep us taking pictures.