"Good photography is unpretentious."

-- Walker Evans

#Photography Quotes #Good Photography Quotes

“For what you do to others, you do to yourself.”
“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source : Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications
“You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.”
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
“Happiness is a continuous creative activity.”
“One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.69, MIRA
“The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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