Nikon Quotes

• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Insightful, Photographer

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• When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

  Sean Penn

  Mistake, Tolerance, Cameras

  "Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder Go Into the Wild". Interview with B. Alan Oranfe, movieweb.com. September 20, 2007.

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• If you can shoot well, all you need is a disposable, toy camera or a camera phone to create great work. If you're not talented, it doesn't matter if you buy a Nikon D3X or Leica; your work will still be uninspired.

  Ken Rockwell

  Phones, Cameras, Needs

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• [After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.

  Dennis Hopper

  Couple, Japan, Years

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• Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.

  Don McCullin

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

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• Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

  Joan Bauer

  Art, Years, Guy

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• We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

  Ellen Goodman

  Photography, Home, Picture Taking

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• Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Thinking, Leica

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• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  Paul Simon

  Summer, Photography, Nice

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Distance, Taken, Artist

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• I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the Spread show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.

  Dave Navarro

  Opportunity, Sponsors, Shows

  "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.

  Nikki Sixx

  Photography, Cameras, Use

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• I'm gathering Kylie thinks that all it takes to capture an image is to point and shoot. That's what everyone thinks. But there's a lot more to it. It's taken me years to frame things correctly. People assume you can't take good pictures on an iPhone, but they're wrong. Some of my best shots are on the phone.They're raw and simple, and most of the time no one knows you're taking a picture. It's much better than the thousand-dollar Nikon my dad got me for Christmas. I don't think I've used it in months.

  Valerie Thomas

  Dad, Taken, Simple

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.150, Egmont UK

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• Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

  Galen Rowell

  Reality, Mars, Digital

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• I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

  Danny Lyon

  Phones, Cells, Cameras

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