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
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
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
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion