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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
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“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”
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“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.”
David Bailey quotes (English fashion Photographer, b.1938)
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“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.”
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“Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.”
Thomas Disch quotes
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“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.”
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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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“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
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