We've grown up being fed the lie that the camera never lies ... The camera tells any lie we ask of it. Or any truth, for that matter. It's a tool, no more objective, really than a microphone. 

- David duChemin

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No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes the picture.

- Doug Bartlow

One does not for long wrestle a view camera in the wind and heat and cold just to illustrate a philosophy. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor. 

- Robert Adams

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. 

- Edward Steichen

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect—a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known. 

- Robert Adams

I still find the camera to be an endlessly intriguing partner that challenges my imagination and knowledge. All that with only three variables of shutter speed, aperture and focal length. 

- Ralph Auletta

Utter truth is essential and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera.

- Margaret Bourke-White

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

- Ken Rockwell

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things; there are just uninterested people. 

- Jerry Uelsmann