July 2012
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the...
– Susan Sontag 186/365
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on...
– Aaron Siskind 185/365
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It’s better to ask forgiveness than beg for permission.
– Anonymous 184/365
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Art is Man’s nature. Nature is God’s art.
– James Bailey 183/365
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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.
– Frank Deford 182/365
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June 2012
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When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people...
– Arthur Fellig 181/365
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Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I...
– Wynn Bullock 180/365
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The necessary condition for an image is sight,” Janouch told Kafka; and...
– Roland Barthes 179/365
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A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it...
– Charlie Waite 178/365
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I can’t seem to get enough of the ‘highway stuff,’ and the fascination of what...
– Edgar Praus 177/365
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even...
– Roland Barthes 176/365
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We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the...
– Minor White 175/365
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I do not choose to make my images. They choose me to get made. I make images for...
– Dominic Rouse 174/365
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Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.
– Alex Webb 173/365
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It’s an immensely liberating feeling when you’re out in the landscape,...
– Charlie Waite 172/365
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A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
– Emile Zola 171/365
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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to...
– Mark Twain 170/365
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Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very...
– Susan Sontag 169/365
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Healthy human eyes never saw any part of a scene out of focus.
– Henry Peach Robinson 168/365
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When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch...
– Diane Arbus 167/365
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You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.
– Anonymous 166/365
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but...
– Edward Weston 165/365
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
– Garry Winogrand 164/365
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Do not call yourself an “artist-photographer” and make...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson 163/365
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Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the...
– Susan Sontag 162/365
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