| I almost never set out to photograph a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | It is not the language of painters but the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| Rowell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| situation nearly as interesting as | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Allard | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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