#photography

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

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Photography is a very important part of my life. ↗

— Conrad Hall

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#altering #holding #instant #life #out

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. ↗

— Walker Evans

#creativity #photography #art

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. ↗

— Louis Faurer

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You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. ↗

— Joan Miró

#photography #art

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#photographs #photography #pictures #life

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. ↗

— August Sander

#illuminated #photography #shadows

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#definite #going #itself #lends #live

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

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