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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a… — Jacqueline Bisset
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the… — Bill Brandt
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on… — Bill Brandt
It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in… — Gisele Bundchen
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about… — Gabriel Byrne
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. — Robert Capa
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. — Robert Capa
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I… — Drew Carey
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell
Essentially what photography is is life lit up. — Sam Abell
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. — Sam Abell
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate… — Sam Abell

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