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    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.

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Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

by Helmut Newton Found in: Photography Quotes,
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the read more

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.

by Elizabeth Bowen Found in: Photography Quotes,
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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.

by Edward Weston Found in: Photography Quotes,
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You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.

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

by Source Unknown Found in: Photography Quotes,
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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.

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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.

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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.

by Robert Heinecken Found in: Photography Quotes,
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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.

by David Bailey Found in: Photography Quotes,
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

by Ansel Adams Found in: Photography Quotes,
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