| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| edges around some facts, you change those | |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
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| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| Stieglitz | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Weston |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| It is not the language of painters but the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | would be slowed down by painting or |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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