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Quotes on Photography

"I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."

Adams, Ansel · Photography · 1 fans >>
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"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."

Arbus, Diane · Photography · 2 fans >>
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"If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid."

Arbus, Diane · Photography · 1 fans >>
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"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

Atkinson, Brooks · Photography · 2 fans >>
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary."

Bailey, David · Photography · 2 fans >>
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"The photographic image... is a message without a code."

Barthes, Roland · Photography · 2 fans >>
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"If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature."

Baudelaire, Charles · Photography · 0 fans >>
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"Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era."

Beals, Jessie Tarbox · Photography · 0 fans >>
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"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."

Benjamin, Walter · Photography · 0 fans >>
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"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."

Benn, Tony · Photography · 3 fans >>
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