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Daily quote: : Ansel Adams

Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. -Ansel Adams, "Ansel Adams: Photographs" by Wings Books, New Jersey

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Daily quote: : W. Eugene Smith

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. -W. Eugene Smith, "Myth and Vision on the Walk to Paradise Garden and the Photography of W. Eugene Smith" by Menning Hansen, ISBN: 9179002668 , page: 5
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Daily quote: : Ralph Steiner

I say to young photographers, 'What in God's name are you doing, taking a picture of a tree or a mountain? That's crazy! What you should do is take a person by the hand and show him the tree or the mountain itself. Why show him a stupid picture? It's flat and it's tiny compared to the mountain. The mountain is magnificent and has power . . .' They look at me as if I'm nuts. They don't know what to say back to me. So I go on to say that the reason you show someone a photograph is because a photograph is part of a human being--you--and as people we're more interested in human beings than we are in mountains. By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart. The very silent, marvelous American painter, Edward Hopper, put it very simply. He said, 'The work's the man. You can't get something out of nothing.' -Ralph Steiner

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Daily quote: : Pete Turner

Ultimately, simplicity is the goal - in every art, and achieving simplicity is one of the hardest things to do. Yet it's easily the most essential. -Pete Turner, "More Joy of Photography" by Eastman Kodak (Editor)
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Daily quote: : William Albert Allard

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse. -William Albert Allard, "Photographic Essay (American Photographer Master Series)" by William Albert Allard
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Daily quote: : Edward Weston

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed. -Edward Weston

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Daily quote: : Harold Feinstein

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it. -Harold Feinstein

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Daily quote: : Elliott Erwitt

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. -Elliott Erwitt

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Daily quote: : David Bailey

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. -David Bailey, Life April 1997, page 92, "David Bailey's Rock and Roll Heroes" by David Bailey (Photographer), Neil Spencer, ISBN: 0821223925
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Daily quote: : Alfred Eisenstaedt

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. -Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Daily quote: : Brett Weston

Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic. -Brett Weston, Attributed to Brett Weston referring to working with a 10 x 8 view camera. In an interview with David Graham in July 1989 View Camera magazine.

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Daily quote: : Minor White

A sequence of photographs is like a cinema of stills. The time and space between photographs is filled by the beholder, first of all from himself, then from what he can read in the implications of design, the suggestions springing from treatment, and any symbolism that might grow from within the subject itself. -Minor White, "Mirrors, messages, manifestations" by Minor White, Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1969.
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Daily quote: : W. Eugene Smith

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject. -W. Eugene Smith, repeats an idea expressed by Edvard Steichen,1987, "Myth and Vision on the Walk to Paradise Garden and the Photography of W. Eugene Smith" by Menning Hansen, ISBN: 9179002668 , page: 33
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Daily quote: : Mary Ellen Mark

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul, and I think you have to be clear about that. -Mary Ellen Mark, "Mary Ellen Mark : 25 Years" by Marianne Fulton, ISBN: 0821218387, page: 16
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