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