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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

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But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#books #cameras #exhibitions #get #hung

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#artist #became #berlin #born #british

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#must #own #photograph #their #view

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#central #childhood #dove #farm #hunting

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. ↗

— Al Goldstein

#disgusting #effort #make #more #our

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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