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. -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.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Berenice Abbott quotes in our collection. Berenice Abbott is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

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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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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. -Berenice Abbott
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...

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207

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.

Berenice Abbott
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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. -Berenice Abbott
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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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