| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Sam Abell | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| would be slowed down by painting or | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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