Mathew Brady Quotes

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Mathew Brady

• Life
• World

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Mathew Brady

• Art
• Photography
• Aim

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers.

Mathew Brady

• Country
• Faces
• Obligation

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.

Mathew Brady

The camera is the eye of history.

Mathew Brady

• History
• Eye
• Camera