| Photography is a major force in explaining | It is not the language of painters but the |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | world about you, and trust to your own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | 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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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | - Dorothea Lange |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
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