| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| would be slowed down by painting or | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be made. - Sam Abell |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | world about you, and trust to your own |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| Rowell | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| those that you are going to make. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| That's life! - John Sexton | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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