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Berenice Abbott Quotes: Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
         

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.


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I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.



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Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.



Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.



What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.



Photography helps people to see.

Photography helps people to see.



I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.



Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.



There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.



Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.



Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.





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