Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott
Photography helps people to see. – Berenice Abbott
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
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. – Berenice Abbott
Does not the very word creative mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death. – Berenice Abbott
There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. – Berenice Abbott
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott
