Demetri Martin Quotes

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

It gives you more freedom, the digital camera.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

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 don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

I'm always worried about the sitter - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable? Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking.

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.

It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.