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If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business asking anyone for anything, let alone their time and interest. Don't show the world, he said, invent the world. ↗

— Whitney Otto

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You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go. ↗

— Blue GhostGhost

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To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. ↗

— Kim Edwards

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When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. ↗

— Robert Frank

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Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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