Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Photography is an accident.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
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