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• Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless. But if one insists in a photograph that is both complex and vigorous it is almost impossible

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, World, Impossible

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Photography, Brother, Photographer

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• I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Adventure, Thinking

  "Arbus Speaks" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Insightful, Nikon

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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Travel, Cameras

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• The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Inspirational, Photography, Eye

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• The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Eye, Black And White

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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• Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Two, Add

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

  Joan Miro

  Inspirational, Photography, Thinking

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• Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

  Sally Mann

  Inspirational, Photography, Past

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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

  Photography, Details, Littles

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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• While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Leica, Photographer

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• The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lincoln Kirstein, Beaumont Newhall (1963). “Photographs”

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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

  Photography, Hunters, Next

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• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

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• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Ignorance

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• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  Sam Abell

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Powerful, Communication

  Ansel Adams, Edwin Herbert Land (1974). “Singular images”, Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

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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.

  Robert Heinecken

  Photography, Differences, World

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