Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself. – Berenice Abbott
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. – Berenice Abbott
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – 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