| 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 |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| Weston | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| would be slowed down by painting or | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | Stieglitz |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | It is not the language of painters but the |
| Allard | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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