top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
Standard
Customized
Explore more quotes by Berenice Abbott
"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."
"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past."
"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
Exlpore more Creativity quotes
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
bottom of page