| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | One should really use the camera as though |
| world about you, and trust to your own | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Dorothea Lange |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | - Sam Abell |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| - Aaron Siskind | Rowell |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Adams |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | situation nearly as interesting as |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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