| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Lange |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | be made. - Sam Abell |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Weston | |
| | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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