A Quote by Janet Malcolm

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

Janet Malcolm

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Janet Malcolm
American - Writer
Born: 1934

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

Billy Collins

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

Gordon Parks

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

George Stevens

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the way.

Margaret Bourke-White

You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.

Daniel Wu

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

John Steinbeck

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

My first pieces, in an art context, were ways to get myself off the page and into real space. These photographic pieces were ways to, literally, throw myself into my environment. They were photographs not of an activity, but through an activity; the activity (once I planted a camera in the instrument of that activity - once I, simply, held a camera in my hands) could produce a picture.

Vito Acconci

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Billy Collins

I was incredibly supple and did gymnastics as well. So half of my injuries are because I am over-supple and the joints could always go that little bit further. But I was happy to push, and I have no regrets. That is important to say.

Darcey Bussell

A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

Robert Newton Peck

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.

Bernard Baruch

Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.

Anne Fadiman

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

John Adams

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