Top Photography Quotes
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.
John Sexton
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Arnold Newman
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
Ken Burns 
Sam Abell 
Edward Steichen 
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Donald Rumsfeld 
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.
Edward Steichen
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I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
Sarah Sutton
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I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.
Ben Shahn
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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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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell
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I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
Bob Anderson
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