#graph

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#every #people #photographer #picture #two

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#extraneous #get #immensely #important #improved

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #finding #layman #modeling #perspective

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#confusion #create #done #little #mistakes

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#geographically #middle #middle east #politically #syria

The costumes had to serve the choreography. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#costumes #had #serve

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#biography #enemy #should #written

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#acted #approach #build #creative #death

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#grow #grow up #imitates #itself #medium