| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| has to transform the photographer into an | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | You just have to care about what's around you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Stieglitz |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | It is not the language of painters but the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | world about you, and trust to your own |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | 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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