"Photography can never grow up if it imitates……" — Berenice Abbott
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
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28 Quotes by Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott has 28 quotes on this site.
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I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this…
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Photography helps people to see.
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject…
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or…
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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance.…
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Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
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We offer reasonable prices and huge list of tickets for 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and Buy World Cup Soccer…
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Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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