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Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle
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You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
Author: Source Unknown
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Author: Edward Weston
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A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Author: Diane Arbus
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When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".
Author: Vicki Goldberg
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.
Author: Berenice Abbott
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To manipulate an image is to control a people
Author: Carolyn Gerard
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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
Author: David Bailey
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The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
Author: Murphy's Rules
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Author: Tony Benn
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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Author: Brooks Anderson
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Author: Berenice Abbott
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Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Author: Robert Heinecken
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Author: Edward Steichen
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I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, "This is real, too."
Author: Wynn Bullock
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Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.
Author: Jean-Luc Godard
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Author: Ansel Adams
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
Author: Edward Steichen
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
Author: John Berger
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If photography were difficult in the true sense . . . that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output.
Author: Ansel Adams
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Author: Dorthea Lange
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Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us ro see.
Author: Dorthea Lange
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Author: Diane Arbus
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If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
Author: James Mcneill Whistler
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Author: Ansel Adams
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Author: Ansel Adams
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Author: Ansel Adams
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