Eras Quotes - Page 4

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Only photograph what you love.

It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

The camera can photograph thought.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

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.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

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.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.