Top 30 Berenice Abbott Quotes (2024 Update)

Berenice Abbott Quote: “Photography helps people to see.”

1. “Photography helps people to see.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.”

2. “Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.”

3. “I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.”

4. “Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.”

5. “None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That’s the only way they are going to find themselves. They can’t do it in their heads – they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.”

6. “I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”

7. “There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.”

8. “What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.”

9. “Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world – good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.”

10. “I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I’ll be there until the last minute, fighting.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.”

11. “The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.”

12. “To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.”

13. “I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.”

14. “Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”

15. “Photography doesn’t teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.”

16. “The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”

17. “I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”

19. “Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”

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

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.”

21. “The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times – the pulse of today.”

22. “Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times – the pulse of today.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.”

23. “What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We need more simplifications to free us for seeing.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.”

24. “The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.”

25. “Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.”

26. “Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!”

27. “I haven’t seen too many images that have impressed me!”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.”

28. “You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I’m the one to do it.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”

29. “If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”

30. “The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.”

31. “I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.”

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Berenice Abbott Quote: “Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.”

32. “Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.”

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