shutter quotes

The most important thing about photographing people isnot clicking the shutter†it is clicking with the subject.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt
  Witness to Our Time.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking† Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.

- Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
  'A Berlin Diary', in Goodbye to Berlin (1939).