Berenice Abbott Quotes

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years. Traveling gave me a ton of practice as well, and the ability, once you learn to properly manipulate and capture light and freeze any moment in time for safe keeping, has always fascinated me.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

I love photography myself.

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.