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~ Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything. ~

Leonard Misonne

~ Of course, there will always be those who look only at technicque, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ~

Man ray

~ No matter how slow the film, spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen. ~

Minor White

~ 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. ~

Robert Heinecken

~ If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. ~

Ruth Bernhard

~ 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 ~

Sadakichi Hartmann

~ Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. ~

Susan Sontag

~ The two most engaging powers of a photographer are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~

W. Thackeray

~ The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. ~

Walker Evans

~ When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. ~

Edward Weston

~ Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks! ~

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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