"To chart a course, one must have a……" — 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, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world."
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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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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be…
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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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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
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