Arnold Newman Quotes

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

The camera photographs what's there.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

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

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

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.

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

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

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I always carry my camera with me.

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

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

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

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.

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

We all know a mirror reflects us, if you look in it. If you move, the reflection moves. If you project from a mirror, meaning it will project an image, it's nothing to do with you. The world seen by nobody.

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.