Berenice Abbott Quotes

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• I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
• Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
• There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You…
• Photography helps people to see.
• The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
• Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be…
• Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
• I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes…
• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a…
• Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a…
• Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
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• Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
• What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
• Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real…
• Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
• 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 can't…
• The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we…
• Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a…
• Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times…

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