"The camera is no more an instrument of……" — Berenice Abbott

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

— Berenice Abbott

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28 Quotes by Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Photography helps people to see.
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be…
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject…
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or…
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance.…
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
We offer reasonable prices and huge list of tickets for 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and Buy World Cup Soccer…
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

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More Camera Quotes

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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain
I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant
At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message… — Mika Brzezinski

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