| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| One should really use the camera as though | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Dorothea Lange | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| 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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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| - Aaron Siskind | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| world about you, and trust to your own | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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