Cameras Quotes - Page 29

• We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Reality, Doctors

  "The Invisibles". Comic book series by Grant Morrison, Volume 3, issue #04, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 1: Planet Stepford, 1994-2000.

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• If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Way, Remember, Said

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• The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

  John Dunning

  Artist, Perfect, Missing

  John Dunning (2012). “The Bookman's Wake”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Dark, Shadow Work

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• I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Years, Sitting

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• Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Rainbow, Lenses

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

  George W. Bush

  Running, June, Rolling

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

  George W. Bush

  Technology, Differences, Squirrels

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• It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Real, Opposites, Doe

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• My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

  Maira Kalman

  Notebook, Dream, Travel

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• It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hair

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• One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Boys, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Someday, Fixed, Shutters

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• Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Quiet, Hacks

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• For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: 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.

  Roland Barthes

  Technique, Sound, Watches

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• I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.

  Eoin Colfer

  Brother, Flower, Rocks

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• Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!

  J.R. Ward

  Arrows, Guy, Firsts

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• Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

  Craig Ferguson

  Sometimes, Pathology, Spills

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• When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sweet, Hurt, Tripping

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

  Alice Sebold

  Way, Bones, Moments

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Location, Photographer

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• [Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanying utterances, though, were varied. I heard everything from "Please no" (Maggie), to "Jesus Christ" (Wallace), to "Stop it or die" (I'm assuming it's obvious).

  Sarah Dessen

  Jesus, Hands, Utterance

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.121, Penguin

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• I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Goodbye to Berlin "Berlin Diary" (1939)

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• Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.

  Jessica Stern

  Light, People, Feelings

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