| It is not the language of painters but the | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| more you realize what can be photographed | would be slowed down by painting or |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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