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I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
— William Eggleston
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
— John Szarkowski
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
— John Szarkowski
A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
— John Szarkowski
Reality is endlessly cold and lonely.
— Haruki Murakami
The photographer's vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.
— John Szarkowski
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
— John Szarkowski
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
— John Szarkowski
Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
— John Szarkowski
You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.
— John Szarkowski
Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.
— John Szarkowski
God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
— Paulo Coelho
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
It was as much of a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility. He
— Rachel Joyce
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
— John Szarkowski
A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.
— John Szarkowski
What can we dowhen even the public conveyances
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how get out of anywhere — Charles Olson
The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.
— John Szarkowski
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
— Karl Kraus
I still like to get carried away - but passively.
— Robert Plant
A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.
— John Szarkowski