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Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.
Beaumont Newhall
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I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.
Sherrie Levine
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I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.
Eliot Porter
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We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
Carl Mydans
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Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
John Derek
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I know how to tell a story, but there's a deeper thing I'm trying to get to now that can't be expressed with a caption.
Doug Menuez
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The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.
Wright Morris
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Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface....
Philippe Halsman
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.
John Paul Caponigro
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Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
Sandy Skoglund
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The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.
Irving Penn
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Is she as pretty as a picture
Or clear as crystal
Or pure as a lily
Or black as coal
Or sharp as a razor?
Lorna Simpson
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Run. For your life, for your joy, for your calm and peace of mind. Run. Because your legs are strong and your lungs are aching for the taste of air. Run. Because what's the point of a life spent walking in the middle?
Tyler Knott Gregson
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We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.
Max Kozloff
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It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.
Sally Mann
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Dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.
Clarence John Laughlin
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I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search...
John Pfahl
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
William Mortensen
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Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young
David Levinthal
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I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
Imogen Cunningham
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I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
Emmet Gowin
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The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.
Nicholas Nixon
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The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.
Allan Sekula
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Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
Dorothy Norman
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