Quotes that every photographer should know

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What the writer meant by this is that if after spending hundreds if not thousand of dollars to get to a place that you'll probable never get a chance to visit again it seems rather silly to worry about the cost of a few extra frames or even rolls of film.
 
Double Negative said:
"f/8 and be there" is a classic.
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This reminds me of the old story about two guys, one of them a keen street photographer, walking along the street when they see a disheveled beggar on the side of the road. One guy, the photographer stops and bends over him, while the other guy keeps walking. A short time later he catches up. "What did you give him?" says the other guy. "Oh f8 at 125th of a second" says the photographer.
 
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
Robert Doisneau
 
Not specifically photography, but it's one of my favorites:

"Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically."
Sol Lewitt
 
"If your pictues aren't good enough, you aren't close enough"

Robert Capa
1913-1954
(Killed by a land mine while on assignment in French Indo-China in 1954)
 
"Don't talk to me about digital. I've got hypo in my veins. The stains you see on my shirts are Dektol. I like the dark room, the radio, the yellow light glowing. I rip the printing paper into quarters. One square is swimming in the Dektol. Through the clear, brown liquid I see my work emerging – my picture. Then I take it, the little piece, and give it away, a gift, to the person pictured in it, a return for what they have given me. Thirty years pass. People die. Children grow old. They keep the little piece, stuck up on a wall with thumbtacks, creased and stained: themselves, young and alive, forever.
That is photography."

— Lyon, Danny. (2009). Memories of Myself. Phaidon Press.
 
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