| I think you have to have a real point of view | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Adams |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| those that you are going to make. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| would be slowed down by painting or | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | Lange |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | world about you, and trust to your own |
| has to transform the photographer into an | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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