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“If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.”

Ifs Seems Asks Answers Photography

Author:Lee Friedlander

“Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.”

People Thinking Art Asks Interest Photography

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.”

Writing Asks Photography Photographer Shut Up

Author:Bill Jay

“Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.”

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Author:Bill Jay

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”

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Author:Man Ray

“"Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.”

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Author:Sam Abell

“In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear and ask what you are doing and that you can't answer, and you haven't many references, and you don't know the law. Neither is it easy to find and know the subjects for portraits or comfortable to make such picture when you cannot apply an anesthesia of small talk.”

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Book:Paul Strand: essays on his life and work

Source: Paul Strand: essays on his life and work