| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | It is not the language of painters but the |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| more you realize what can be photographed | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| those that you are going to make. | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| That's life! - John Sexton | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Rowell |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | - Sam Abell |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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