| One should really use the camera as though | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Dorothea Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| Rowell | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| edges around some facts, you change those | Lange |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | be made. - Sam Abell |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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