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It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because read more
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable read more
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man read more
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that read more
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic read more
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
