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			|  | 02/07/2006 06:30:37 PM · #1 | 
		| | Whats your favorite photography quote??  I have found 2 that I think are great... 
 - [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
 Aaron Siskind
 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 06:50:17 PM · #2 | 
		| | "life is like photography, you have to use the negatives to develop" well, unless it's digital photography... ;)
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			|  | 02/07/2006 06:54:14 PM · #3 | 
		| | "f/8 and be there" 
 I've got no idea who said it, but it reminds me to sometimes just keep it simple and shoot stupid.
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			|  | 02/07/2006 07:43:00 PM · #4 | 
		| | | Originally posted by nerdynotdirty: "life is like photography, you have to use the negatives to develop"
 well, unless it's digital photography... ;)
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 that one is awesome!!!
 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 07:55:25 PM · #5 | 
		| | "Anything more than 500 yds from the car just isn't photogenic." Brett Weston
 
 Not very inspirational, but funny.
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			|  | 02/07/2006 08:01:15 PM · #6 | 
		| | People say photographs don't lie, mine do. -David LaChapelle | 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 08:28:41 PM · #7 | 
		| | Ernest Hemingway: "Good pictures, what camera do you use?" Irving Penn: "What typewriter do you use?"
 
 Words to remember when you're faced with equipment-envy.
 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 08:42:26 PM · #8 | 
		| | "Get your own damn camera" - Herbert Hoover | 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 08:48:43 PM · #9 | 
		| | Less artsy, more fartsy - Homer J. Simpson | 
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			|  | 02/07/2006 08:52:44 PM · #10 | 
		| | | Originally posted by singsunshine: Whats your favorite photography quote??  I have found 2 that I think are great...
 
 - [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever . . . it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
 Aaron Siskind
 
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 I actually just used this quote on my cover of my asuka book.  I love it!  :)
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			|  | 02/07/2006 09:59:56 PM · #11 | 
		| | "After an hour or two at sea, My Passport Photo looks like me!"
 
 Author unknown ( to me )
 
 Though it sounds a bit like something Ogden Nash would write, so I'll credit him with it, unless / until I'm corrected.
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			|  | 02/07/2006 10:39:57 PM · #12 | 
		| | When I was in my printers office the other day, they have a poster up with the quote 
 "Voyeur: you capture light, the entrantress, and bend her to your likeness"
 
 I loved it!  Don't know who wrote it though - anyone heard it?
 
 Nic
 
 Message edited by author 2006-02-07 22:41:55.
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			|  | 02/07/2006 10:51:23 PM · #13 | 
		| | Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about time, masters worry about light. 
 bazz.
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			|  | 02/07/2006 10:56:01 PM · #14 | 
		| | Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if...." And then do it. -Duane Michals | 
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			|  | 07/15/2010 05:12:42 PM · #15 | 
		| | I know old thread but anyway.. :) 
 Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all timesâ€Â¦I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt
 
 
 
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			|  | 07/15/2010 05:15:26 PM · #16 | 
		| | It's not so much a good quote on photography, but an amusing anecdote my brother saw on a photography shop window: "Hang the family, shoot the wife and blame the kids!" 
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			|  | 07/15/2010 06:40:59 PM · #17 | 
		| | My work here is done. Why wait? - George Eastman | 
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			|  | 07/15/2010 06:48:53 PM · #18 | 
		| | "Your camera takes nice pictures." 
 "Thanks, your mouth makes nice compliments."
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			|  | 07/15/2010 07:01:03 PM · #19 | 
		| | Long ago ... it must be ... I have a photograph.
 Preserve your memories;
 They're all that's left you.
 
 --Paul Simon, Bookends Theme (1968)
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			|  | 07/15/2010 08:52:38 PM · #20 | 
		| | To capture the essence in a single photograph is absurd. The essence is captured while photographing. 
 I just made that up.(I hope nobody else said that):)
 
 Leo
 
 changed it a bit
 
 Message edited by author 2010-07-15 20:57:47.
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			|  | 07/15/2010 09:16:11 PM · #21 | 
		| | If we're making up our own quotes now, my most often used one is: 
 "drat!"
 
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