Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling."
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Cameras
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Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie."
Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one."
Ian Brown
Musician
"If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived."
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"I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me."
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"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid."
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"It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel."
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"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!"
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"Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed."
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"As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter."
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"Only photograph what you love."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray."
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"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
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"In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show."
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"I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this"
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"Cameras get in the way of seeing."
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"The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial."
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"I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself."
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"Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story."
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"Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing."
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"There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
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"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
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"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
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