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The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand and point the… — Margaret Bourke-White
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.… — Garry Winogrand
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts… — Roman Vishniac
In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make… — John Szarkowski
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less… — Susan Sontag
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. — Victor Skrebneski
Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera. — Minor White
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself..... — Freeman Patterson
The subject comes first, the medium second. — Richard Price
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself. — Dorothea Lange
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it,… — Brassai
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject;… — Ansel Adams
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression… — Alexey Brodovitch
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a… — Thomas Paine
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often… — Unknown Author
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. — Gilbert Highet
The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field. — Jerome Bruner
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens… — Louis Agassiz
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry

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