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Daily quote: : Lord Snowdon

It's no good saying "hold it" to a moment in real life. -Lord Snowdon, on why you should shoot first and worry about the focusing on the second picture., "Pictures on a Page : Photojournalism and Picture Editing" by Harold Evans, ISBN: 0534008127, page: 20
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Daily quote: : Ernst Haas

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. -Ernst Haas

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Daily quote: : Alfred Stieglitz

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent. -Alfred Stieglitz, in 1899

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Daily quote: : Wynn Bullock

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or what you sculpt it to be. Words, photographs, paintings, and sculptures are symbols of what you see, think, and feel things to be, but they are not the things themselves. -Wynn Bullock

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Daily quote: : W. Eugene Smith

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. -W. Eugene Smith, "Let Truth Be the Prejudice : W. Eugene Smith His Life and Photographs" by John G. Morris (Afterword), Ben Maddow, W. Eugene Smith (Photographer), ISBN: 0893811793
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Daily quote: : Wynn Bullock

A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change. -Wynn Bullock

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Daily quote: : John Sexton

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up. -John Sexton, "The Expressive Black and White Print" by John Sexton

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Daily quote: : Jerry Valente

The whole search is for the unknown. -Jerry Valente

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Daily quote: : Elliott Erwitt

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me, but then again, I'm very lucky. -Elliott Erwitt, on getting a different picture.

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Daily quote: : Theodore Levitt

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film. They advertise memories. -Theodore Levitt

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Daily quote: : Wynn Bullock

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them. -Wynn Bullock

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Daily quote: : Thomas Sutton

Photography is yet in its infancy, and it offers to the intelligent amateur a field for readily gaining distinction as the author of valuable experiments. Let him consider whether he will occupy his spare time and cash in producing photographs of more or less merit and which may be doomed to fade before his eyes, or whether he will employ the same opportunities to advance the art. -Thomas Sutton, in 1857

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Daily quote: : Lord Snowdon

I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible. -Lord Snowdon

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Daily quote: : Edward Weston

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. -Edward Weston

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