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Quote by Berenice Abbott
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of t

What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. – Berenice Abbott

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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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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 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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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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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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For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes

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We die only once, and for such a long time. – Moliere

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Security… its simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that youre willing to deal with whatever happens. – Harry Browne

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