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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in ar

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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In my minds eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. – Ansel Adams

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. – Tony Benn

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Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. – Minor White

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

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Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. – William Butler Yeats

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Well, I dont know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think Ive become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice. – Jenna Fischer

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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the worlds great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak. – Ralph Chaplin

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Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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