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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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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
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“To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.”
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“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
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“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.”
Diane Arbus quotes (American Photographer She is best known for her photographs of out of the ordinary people, 1923-1971)
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“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Dorothea Lange quotes (American documentary photographer, 1895-1965)
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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 way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”
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“Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.”
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“Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.”
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