Quote by Berenice Abbott
Does not the very word creative mean to build, to initiate, to giv

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

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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott

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alone
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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

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Photography
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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

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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. – Plautus

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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. – Martin Short

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Its something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it. – Travis Barker

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Im not on the run from anything and Im not at all clear about what Im running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, Im totally exhausted. – Fiona Shaw

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Dont ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you dont, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you. – Boris Kodjoe

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To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future – it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. – Bo Bennett

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