| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is about finding out what can |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| - Sam Abell | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Weston | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Rowell | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| world about you, and trust to your own | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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