| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | It is not the language of painters but the |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| Weston | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| - Sam Abell | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| has to transform the photographer into an | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | be made. - Sam Abell |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | those that you are going to make. |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | That's life! - John Sexton |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | 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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