| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | those that you are going to make. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | be made. - Sam Abell |
| 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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