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Photography Quotes
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y."
-Tupac Shakur
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"I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse."
-Diane Arbus
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"I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life."
-Andre Kertesz
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"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
-Robert Doisneau
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"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
-Ernst Haas
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"We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them."
-Gene McSweeney
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"Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments."
-Michael Lesy
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"Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second."
-Jean luc Godard
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"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true."
-Jacques henri Lartigue
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"'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'"
-Ansel Adams
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"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools."
-Ken Rockwell
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"I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil."
-W. Eugene Smith
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"While 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 to see."
-Dorothea Lange
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"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."
-Tallulah Bankhead
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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."
-Henri Cartier bresson
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"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
-Berenice Abbott
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"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture."
-William Albert Allard
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"Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness."
-W. Eugene Smith
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"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
-Diane Arbus
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"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning 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. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
-Ansel Adams
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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind."
-Dorothea Lange
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"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is..."
-Berenice Abbott
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"No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want."
-Ken Rockwell
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"The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs."
-Ken Rockwell
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"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
-Henri Cartier bresson
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"Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees."
-Paul Strand
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"I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation."
-Yousuf Karsh
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