The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the work of photographing could go on forever.
Berenice AbbottLike every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.
Berenice AbbottSome people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
Berenice AbbottLet us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.
Berenice Abbott