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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 Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best read more
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. read more
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
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. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about read more
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, read more
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the read more
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.