| Photography records the gamut of feelings | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| - Edward Steichen | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | - Ansel Adams |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| situation nearly as interesting as | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Adams | 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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