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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.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson quotes (French Photographer, 1908-2004)

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“The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
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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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“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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“He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.”
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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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“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
W. Eugene Smith quotes
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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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“A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.”
Ansel Adams quotes (American Photographer, 1902-1984)
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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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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.”
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