I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.
BERENICE ABBOTTThe 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.
More Berenice Abbott Quotes
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I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.
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I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.
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The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.
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I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.
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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.
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Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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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.
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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.
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Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today.
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I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.
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