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 only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. – Berenice Abbott

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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. – Author Unknown

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A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both. – Author Unknown

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