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“I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)”

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Author:John Ruskin

“I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.”

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Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.”

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Author:Bill Jay

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

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Author:Ansel Adams

“Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.”

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Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

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Book:Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

Source: Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning

“If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.”

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Author:Robert Doisneau