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Hi all, here's some fun stuff.
I decided to post quotes of some famous photographers and anonymous. Feel free to post any you may also remember.

These are some of my favourites:

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There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. - Ansel Adams
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A photograph is not an accident – it is a concept. - Ansel Adams 
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Once photography enters your bloodstream, it's like a disease. - Anonymous
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Never show a customer two prints of different density. He will ask you to print a third with a density between the two. - Anonymous
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Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't have time to make them all yourself. - Anonymous
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Photography was once described as painting with light. - Anonymous
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Photography is like golf, you never master it, but you can always get better. - Anonymous
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Most cameras and most lenses are better than most photographers. - Anonymous
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If you buy a flute, you own a flute. So why is it that when you buy a camera, you're a photographer? - Anonymous
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Photography is like a lemon, sour to some, but lemonade to others. - Anonymous
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The pictures you want tomorrow, you have to take today. - Anonymous
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Upgrade your knowledge before you upgrade your camera. - Anonymous
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. - Richard Avedon
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Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. - Diane Arbus
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A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. - Dieter Appelt,
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
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Having and camera makes you no more a photographer than having a hammer and some nails makes you a carpenter. - Claude Adams
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Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great
 picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel. - Peter Adams
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If it makes you laugh,
if it makes you cry,
if it rips out your heart,
that's a good picture. - Eddie Adams
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iStock rejected this image while Shutterstock took it and it's selling. **** Thousands of microstockrs.

I took two years of Koine Greek in college and yes you are right rubyroo.

Thanks Eppic - good of you to confirm that  

Stormchaser - that's a great paraphrase.  They should put that at the top of agency FAQs 

The one quote from Ansel Adams that stays with me is this:

"You don't take a photograph, you make a photograph."

(I hope I got that right)

PS . . .  I forgot I was talking to a bunch of salty old dogs so I guess everyone knows that quote.

 

« Get a little closer...3...2...1...Smile!»

                                           -   My dad

Great Quotes, thanks for sharing.

Best,
Jonathan