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"No matter
how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the
photographer It has chosen."
-Minor White
"I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose.
Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and
farther, trying to see it clearly) and says, 'Here, you can go.'"
-Steven Wright, comedian
"My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs
I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just
stark me."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing
it right, or doing it better."
-John Updike
"One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the
flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took
fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning
in my house."
-Steven Wright, comedian
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without
a camera."
-Dorthea Lange
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and
feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good
chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an
ability that comes from a lot of practice."
-Ansel Adams
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you
the less you know."
-Diane Arbus
"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is
choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral
and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of
melon in the dust."
-Elizabeth Bowen
"Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can
tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is
another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to
see."
-Dorthea Lange
"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do --
that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did
it, I felt very perverse."
-Diane Arbus
"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
-Ansel Adams
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
-Ansel Adams
"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer
and the viewer."
-Ansel Adams
"Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists
with guns."
-Anonymous
"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception
of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you
the impulse to make the picture your own."
-Robert Collier
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting
thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development,
who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good
conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not
only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
-William Lyon Phelps
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a
good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable
words."
-Goethe
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill
nothing but time."
-Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving society):
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