| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | world about you, and trust to your own |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you realize what can be photographed | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | those that you are going to make. |
| Rowell | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| would be slowed down by painting or | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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