Mathew Brady Quotes

• 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

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• The camera is the eye of history.

  Mathew Brady

  Eye, Cameras

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

  Mathew Brady

  Mother, Country, Men

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• 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

  Appreciate, World, Changed

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

  Mathew Brady

  Photography, Feet, Spirit

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