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 | "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the
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Diane Arbus
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| "Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive
pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up"
in my time ? this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of
tolerable of their absent dear ones." | |
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Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
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| "Don"t play what"s there, play what"s not there." | |
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Miles Davis
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| "For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the
untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but
where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the
button? to the law of averages?" | |
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Gore Vidal
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| "I just think it"s important to be direct and honest with people
about why you"re photographing them and what you"re doing. After all, you
are taking some of their soul." | |
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Mary Ellen Mark
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| "In my mind"s eye, I visualize how a particular ... sight and feeling
will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will
make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes
from a lot of practice." | |
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Ansel Adams
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| "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I
photograph." | |
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Richard Avedon
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| "PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in
art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so
good as that of a Cheyenne." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in
art." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward
is not worth consideration." | |
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Edward Steichen
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| "When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and
the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and
tears, you will know you are on the right track." | |
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Arthur Fellig
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