The document contains 15 quotes from various photographers on the art of photography. The quotes discuss photography as a record of one's life, a way to satisfy curiosity about the world, a tool for storytelling when words are not enough, an inquiry into nature, a means of representation without preaching, a license to learn about people's lives, a universal language that connects all people, an infinite creative process, an excuse to be creative in a particular place and time, a way to discover what something will look like in photographs, a tool to bring attention to overlooked aspects of the world, a constant practice of mentally photographing everything, the impact of images compared to words, a tool through which the photographer gives meaning to their surroundings,

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2. 1 “Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.” — Paul Strand

3. 2 “Photography. . . offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.” — Schopenhauer

4. 3 “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.” — Lewis Hine

5. 4 “Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie. . . so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion.” — Edward Weston

6. 5 “Most of my photographs are compassionate, gentle, and personal. They. . . tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art.” — Bruce Davidson

7. 6 “The camera is a kind of license [to ask people about their lives]. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.” — Diane Arbus

8. 7 “Photography is the only ‘language’ understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man [and] allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others.” —Helmut Gernsheim

9. 8 “Like chess, or writing, [photography] is a matter of choosing from among given possibilities, but in the case of photography the number of possibilities is not finite but infinite.” — John Szarkowski

10. 9 “The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work. . . . You can only see what you are ready to see —what mirrors your mind at that particular time.” — George Tice

12. 11 “Photography is a tool for dealing with things every-body knows about but isn’t attending to. My photo-graphs are intended to represent something you don’t see.” — Emmet Gowin

13. 12 “I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice.” — Minor White

14. 13 “The weight of words. The shock of photos.” — advertisement for Paris-Match

15. 14 “The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.” — André Kertész

16. 15 “I want my photographs to show people what they could never see in ‘real life’. Otherwise, what’s the point?” — Todd Hanson

17. (This is still in progress—more will come, but the last two slides will have summaries, like this next one. . . .)

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