| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | situation nearly as interesting as |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Allard |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Rowell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | be made. - Sam Abell |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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