Candid Camera Quotes:

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

- Lincoln Kirstein

source: Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art

topic: Liars, Candid Camera, Cameras

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

- Weegee

source: Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby

topic: Religious, Candid Camera, Cameras, Religious Fanatics

I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

- Howie Mandel

topic: Candid Camera, People, Humanity

My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'

- Howie Mandel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Laughter, Night, Candid Camera, Pranks

The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.

- Peter Funt

topic: Art, Writing, Eye, Serious Subjects, Candid Camera

Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.428, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Reality, Self, Organization, Social Organization, Iconography