19th-century Photographer Quotes

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

Carl Van Vechten

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

Alfred Stieglitz

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

The heart gets tired too; and it falls apart bit by bit, like an old cloth wears out in the wash.

On the outside grows the furside, on the inside grows the skinside; So the furside is the outside, and the skinside is the inside.

Herbert Ponting

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!