| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| - Sam Abell | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | - Ansel Adams |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| those that you are going to make. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| That's life! - John Sexton | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| 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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