| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| | Lange |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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