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“I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to know about each other. Photography gives us that opportunity.”

Thinking Knows Giving Reality Opportunity Huge Photography Circles Linked

Author:Susan Meiselas

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.”

World Way Giving Littles Use Might Opportunity Photography Luck Who You Are Sensibility

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.”

People Knows Opportunity Process Attention Photography Pay Attention Great Opportunity

Author:Eugene Richards

“Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.”

Artist Opportunity Advice Photography Shut Up

Author:Bill Jay

“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.”

“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.”

“As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.”

May Littles Moments Opportunity Perfect Essentials Photography Training Photographer Deeper Focused Significant Capture Highlights Perfect Moments

Book:Portrait of Myself

Source: Portrait of Myself

“By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all. By professional standards I do not waste a lot of film; but by the standards of many of my colleagues I probably miss quite a few of my opportunities. Still, the things I am after are not in a hurry as a rule.”

Thinking Stills Film Opportunity Missing Waste Photography Standards Photographer Colleagues Temperament Triggers Think Twice

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration.”