| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | - Aaron Siskind |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | It is not the language of painters but the |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Rowell | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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