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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
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Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus books
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At least the box is full of something useful. [On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran]
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Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks books
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85 votes
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer books
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47 votes
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch books
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
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Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm books
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin books
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe books
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Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.
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William Leith
William Leith books
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
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Eliot Porter
Eliot Porter books
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The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
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Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde books
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin books
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange books
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag books
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