Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Berenice AbbottAbstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
Berenice AbbottThe photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
Berenice Abbott