| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | It is not the language of painters but the |
| those that you are going to make. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | world about you, and trust to your own |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | - Ansel Adams |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | Weston |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| You just have to care about what's around you | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | Rowell |
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