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“I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.”

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Author:Horst P. Horst

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

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Book:Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

Source: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”

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Author:Dorothea Lange

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”

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Author:Paul Strand

“Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”

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Book:The Birth of Tragedy

Source: The Birth of Tragedy

“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”

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Author:Dorothea Lange

“It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.”

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Book:Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

Source: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field

“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.”

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Book:Photographs of a Lifetime

Source: Photographs of a Lifetime

“Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.”

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Author:Dorothea Lange

“Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.”

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Author:Walker Evans