| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | Adams |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| world about you, and trust to your own | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Ansel Adams | 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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| Memory is very important, the memory of | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Weston |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| 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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