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The following are some interesting photography quotes from some of my favorite photographers. Think about what they are saying. They are revealing as to what photography should be for us all.

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"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind." - Dorothea Lange 

“Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.” - Ansel Adams

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“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” - Ansel Adams

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” - Bernice Abbott

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“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson

“I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.” - Minor White

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” - Ernst Haas

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Diane Arbus

“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” - Paul Strand

“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.” - Jacques-Henri

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"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate." - Dorothea Lange

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” - Elliott Erwitt

"The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer." - Gordon Parks

All Quotes, Source - BrainyQuote.com

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