Favorite Picture Quotes by Berenice Abbott

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

— Berenice Abbott

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In…

— Berenice Abbott

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,…

— Berenice Abbott

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct…

— Berenice Abbott

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates,…

— Berenice Abbott

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They…

— Berenice Abbott

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera... notes with relentless fidelity.

— Berenice Abbott

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher.…

— Berenice Abbott

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them…

— Berenice Abbott

I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

— Berenice Abbott

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the…

— Berenice Abbott

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty.…

— Berenice Abbott