| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| - Ansel Adams | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Rowell |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Photography is about finding out what can | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | more you realize what can be photographed |
| edges around some facts, you change those | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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