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

  Robert Doisneau

  Knowing, Cameras, Snapshots

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• Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

  Don McCullin

  Inspirational, Feelings, Looks

  "Governance and Resistance in World Politics". Book by David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, and Bice Maiguashca, p. 68, 2003.

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• For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Book, Intuition, Cameras

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

  Ansel Adams

  Knowing, Photographer, American Landscape

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Attention, Viewers

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• To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

  Ansel Adams

  Humanity, Quality, Records

  Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: photographs”

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

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Hate, Photographer

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• Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

  Edward Weston

  Law, Littles, Photographer

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• There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

  Robert Frank

  Two, Humanity, Vision

  "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

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• A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

  Richard Avedon

  Facts, Portraits, Opinion

  "ART; In the Portrait Game, the Photographer Wins" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. March 13, 1994.

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  One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

  Dorothea Lange

  Reality, Cameras, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

  Anne Geddes

  Simple, Creating, Paradox

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• The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same.

  Wynn Bullock

  Integrity, Helping Others, Desire

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

  Bill Brandt

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

  John Berger

  Drawing, Doe, Way

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

  Ralph Steiner

  Creativity, Simple, Trying

  Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan

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• To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "You Might Be a Cowgirl If . . .: A Guide to Life on the Range" by Jill Charlotte Stanford, Robin L. Corey, Globe Pequot, (p. 111), September 4, 2012.

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• Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.

  Jay Maisel

  Fall, Light, Color

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.5, New Riders

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• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Ignorance, Fuzzy

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• Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

  Joe McNally

  Cameras, Location, Photographer

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Maturity, Order, Eggs

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• Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.

  Leonard Freed

  Truth Is, Habit, Relation

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• I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Believe, Reality

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• My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

  Helmut Newton

  Jobs, Portraits, Photographer

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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Sleep

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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