Past Quote by Berenice Abbott

You represent what you present.

— Joseph Farmer

“Every time I force myself to go outside something wonderful happens (Humans of New York photographed subject)”

— Brandon Stanton

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

— Craig Owens

...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality…

— Siegfried Kracauer

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

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my beauty and…

— Kelly Osbourne

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's…

— Robert Doisneau