James Agee Quotes

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.

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

Cameras intrigued me.

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.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

Photography helps people to see.

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

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness.

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.

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

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

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.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

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

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

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

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

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

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.