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i. The man who lives in his eyes is continually confronted with scenes and spectacles that compel his attention, or admiration, and demand an adequate reaction. To pass on without pause is impossible, and to continue after purely mental applause is unsatisfying, some real tribute must be paid. Photography, to many of its addicts, is a convenient and simple means of discharging these ever-recurring debts to the visual world.

-Edwin Smith

 

ii. Photography is an art that must be conducted with the utmost care and attention to detail.

 

iii. To love beauty is to see light.

 

iv. Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.

 

v. There are many tools on the creative landscape, pick one, master it, and let it become your conduit.

 

vi. Be so disciplined in your life so that you can be violent and original in your art.

 

vii. Live out of your imagination, not your history.

 

viii. 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

 

ix. To manipulate an image is to control a people.

-Carolyn Gerard

 

x. It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in a photograph everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.

-David Bailey