| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Weston | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Sam Abell | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | communicate more powerfully than either |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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