More from Berenice Abbott
The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott Suppose we took a thousand negatives… combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens’ vision are esthetically often a virtue.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism – real life – the now.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.
Berenice AbbottBerenice Abbott
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Abdullah IIAbdullah II Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Help along one another’s projects and plans.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha I needed, I needed…you.” “Don’t tell me you need me.” “But I can’t help it. I do
Abbi GlinesAbbi Glines The heart wants who the heart wants. We can’t help that.
Abbi GlinesAbbi Glines I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can’t help but slip at times.
Aaron RodgersAaron Rodgers One-time revenue spikes that aren’t repeatable won’t help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.
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