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Quote by Berenice Abbott
I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do a

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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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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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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