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~ You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory. ~

~ Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ~

Edward Weston

~ When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ~

Vicki Goldberg

~ I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ 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. ~

David Bailey

~ Where 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 ro see. ~

Dorthea Lange

~ The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. ~

Elizabeth Bowen

~ In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ~

Ansel Adams

~ Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know. ~

Lisette Model

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

Diane Arbus

~ For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe. ~

Ruth Bernhard

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