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Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.
Paul Strand
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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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The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.
Irving Penn
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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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Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
Elliott Erwitt
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I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.
Wendy Ewald
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There's an arc of being. There's a beginning, then the peak is reached and then there's the end. It's like the pole vaulter who begins his run, shoots up, then comes down. At the peak there is no movement. He's neither going up nor going down. It is that moment I wait for.
Roy DeCarava
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In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard...
Henry Holmes Smith
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Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.
Scott Schuman
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It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
Kathryn Tucker Windham
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Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.
Frank Gohlke
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I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
Deborah Copaken
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Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.
Leonard Freed
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Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)
William Henry Jackson
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It was clear, I was not Manet's type. Picasso—who had a way with women—only used me & Duchamp never even considered me.
Carrie Mae Weems
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My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.
Jerome Liebling
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As a rule I do not like to explain my photographs, I want my pictures to be read and explored. I believe a good picture is open to many individual (subjective) associations. I am usually pleased when a viewer finds interpretations that I myself had not been aware of.
John Gutmann
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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.
Dawoud Bey
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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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Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
Sandy Skoglund
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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 are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us.
Chester Higgins, Jr.
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The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about something. When I photograph I try to be as aware of my feelings as I can be to somehow try and get them out of me and onto the film in terms of the way I am responding or seeing the world.
Judy Dater
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In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.
Judy Fiskin
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