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Daily quote: Ansel Adams

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. -Ansel Adams

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Daily quote: Minor White

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts. -Minor White, "Mirrors, messages, manifestations" by Minor White, Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1969.
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Daily quote: Elliott Erwitt

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy--the tone range isn't right and things like that--but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention. -Elliott Erwitt

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Daily quote: Mark Twain

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever. -Mark Twain

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Daily quote: David Burnett

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:30:01 GMT

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different. -David Burnett

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Daily quote: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:30:00 GMT

I long to have such a memorial of every being dear to me in the world. It is not merely the likeness which is precious in such cases - but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say, what my brothers cry out against so vehemently, that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist's work ever produced. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1843,letter to Mary Russell Mitford)

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Daily quote: Edward Weston

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:30:01 GMT

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty....Here was every sensuous curve of the 'human figure divine' but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. -Edward Weston

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Daily quote: Minor White

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:30:01 GMT

As I become more in harmony with the world around, through, and in me, the varieties of time weave together. -Minor White, "Mirrors, messages, manifestations" by Minor White, Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1969.
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Daily quote: Minor White

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

I am always mentally photographing everything as practice. -Minor White

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Daily quote: Minor White

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank...For those who would equate "blank" with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank. It is a very active state of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at any time. We should note that the lack of a pre-formed pattern or preconceived idea of how anything ought to look is essential to this blank condition. Such a state of mind is not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. (Not just life, but "a" life). -Minor WhiteThe Camera Mind and Eye

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Daily quote: David Bailey

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

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, In "Face," (London), Dec 1984.

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Daily quote: Edward Weston

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:30:01 GMT

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. -Edward Weston, "Pictures on a page : photo-journalism, graphics and picture editing" by Harold Evans, page: 75
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Daily quote: Edward Weston

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. -Edward Weston

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Daily quote: Ludwig Wittgenstein

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman. -Ludwig Wittgenstein , pt. 2, sct. 11 (1953), "Philosophical Investigations : The English Text of the Third Edition" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe (Translator) , ISBN: 0024288101
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Daily quote: Brett Weston

info@PhotoQuotes.com (PhotoQuotes.com) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment. -Brett Weston

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