| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | It is not the language of painters but the |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | be made. - Sam Abell |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | Allard |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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