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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."”
Wynn Bullock Quotes |
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“Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.”
Jean-Luc Godard Quotes |
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“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
Ansel Adams Quotes |
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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.”
Edward Steichen Quotes |
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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.”
John Berger Quotes |
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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.”
Ansel Adams Quotes |
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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Dorthea Lange Quotes |
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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.”
Dorthea Lange Quotes |
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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.”
Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
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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.”
Diane Arbus Quotes |
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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.”
James Mcneill Whistler Quotes |
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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.”
Ansel Adams Quotes |
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“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
Ansel Adams Quotes |
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“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
Ansel Adams Quotes |
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