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I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
John Baldessari
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Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
Andreas Feininger
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The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.
Andreas Feininger
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With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.
Andreas Feininger
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Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
Andreas Feininger
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Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
Andreas Feininger
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Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make great photographs. That's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life. It's nothing but a matter of seeing, and thinking, and interest.
Andreas Feininger
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Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.
Andreas Feininger
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As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
Andreas Feininger
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Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
Andreas Feininger
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The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.
Andreas Feininger
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A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.
Andreas Feininger
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The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.
Andreas Feininger
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What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.
Andreas Feininger
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I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
Nicholas Negroponte
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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
Jacque Fresco
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If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.
Jack Nicklaus
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
Thomas Jefferson
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
Elsie de Wolfe
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
Arnold Palmer
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We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
Fritz Todt
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It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.
Kanye West
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All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.
Leonardo da Vinci
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