The camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
- Lisette Model
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Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.
- Lisette Model
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I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.
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This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.
- Lisette Model
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... photography is an art form which means: human beings expressing their understanding of and connection with life, themselves, and other human beings.
- Lisette Model
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I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.
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New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.
- Lisette Model
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Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the powere of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of split second.
- Lisette Model
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Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.
- Lisette Model
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