| 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 |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | more you realize what can be photographed |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| - Sam Abell | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| 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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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| Photography is about finding out what can | be made. - Sam Abell |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | It is not the language of painters but the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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