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“Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.”
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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 quotes (French Photographer, 1908-2004)
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“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes (French Photographer, 1908-2004)
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“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.”
Jacques-Henri Lartigue quotes
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“We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes (French Photographer, 1908-2004)
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“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes (French Photographer, 1908-2004)
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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.”
Berenice Abbott quotes (American Photographer, 1898-1991)
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“I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the sitter and I give to each other. It becomes an act of mutual participation.”
Yousuf Karsh quotes (Turkish born Canadian Photographer and Journalist, He is best known for portraits of the great personages of his time, e.g. Winston Churchill, in Life Magazine. 1908-2002)
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“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
Walker Evans quotes (American Photographer. 1903-1975)
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“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 quotes
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“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.”
Paul Strand quotes (American Photographer, 1890-1976)
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