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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

Berenice Abbott

Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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Emotion Photography Teach
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
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Age Photography Years
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.
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Inspirational Photography Ruin Teacher
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
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Lenses Photography Quality Use
Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
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Hurt Self Understanding
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
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Optimism People Photography Real
I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
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Art Bowery Girl Nice Photography
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
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Cameras Photographer Preservation
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it.
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Eye Philosophy Reality
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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Art Photographer Trouble
I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!
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Havens Impressed Photographer
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.
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May Merit Photography World
Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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Documentary Photographer World
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.
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Duck Photography Water
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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Decision Important Photography Thinking
Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he ‘uncovers’ it.
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Documents Good Photographer Probe Subject Uncover

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