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time for a new beginning [deleted] says:

I've got loads, but this is one I'm working with at the moment:

"You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium - so that to photograph becomes a magical act, and slowly other more suggestive images begin to appear behind the visible image, for which the photographer cannot be held responsible"

- Robert Doisneau, A Photographer's Life by Peter Hamilton.
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{tru} says:

I'm a quote-aholic....

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Ansel Adams
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NetDep says:

From my profile....

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

-Diane Arbus

"A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos."

-Henri Cartier-Bresson

...and one recently hear from a podcast where Rick Sammon was interviewed..."The camera looks both ways."....perfect - what we photograph says as much about us as our images say about what we photograph.
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raddad! says:

Robert Capa a famous war photographer had this to say:

"To me war is like an aging actress—more and more dangerous and less and less photogenic."

Another great quote that I have paraphrased in the past by Capa is:

"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough."

To me these are the wisest of words to shoot by!
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scalespeeder says:

"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing a meditation" - HCB.
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cunningba says:

I liked this one so much I've used it at the top of my Zazzle gallery (zazzle.com/cunningba):

"Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary’, for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.”

-- Alvin Langdon Coburn
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herosipet says:

This is not mine.
I read this here once in flickr.
I don't remember where.

I Love This Quote.

Rookies seeks sharper immage.
Pro's seeks to make money.
Artist seeks light.

Cheers
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jeffegg2 says:

"Oh shit!"
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Blaidd0905 says:

Here is one I find funny:

"Film is what you find on your teeth when you wake up in the morning." - Vincent Versace
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pass_lake says:

" A photgraph is a secret within a secret"
-Diane Arbus
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HWPhillips says:

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange
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time for a new beginning [deleted] says:

Working on a new one now:

Learning when not to photograph is one of the most important lessons of photography.
Trying really, really hard is not the same as getting it right.

IslandPhotoBug~Cori Conz says:

Life is like photography; we develop from the negatives.
~ Unknown Author
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