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“Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.”

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James Turrell is an American artist renowned for his innovative work in the field of light and space art. His works explore the relationship between human perception and space, creating unique visual experiences through light and color. more

“The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.”

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Author:Edward Weston

“To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one”

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Author:Victor Skrebneski

“...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.”

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Author:Edward Weston

“It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.”

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Author:David Hurn

“There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.”

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Author:Robert Heinecken

“I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.”

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Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.”

Art Earth Photography Photographer Witness

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!”

Sometimes Worst Photography Cameras Refuse Dust Bags Lenses Filters Meter Complement Offenders

Author:Ansel Adams

“Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.”

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Author:George H. Harrison

“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

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