| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| It is not the language of painters but the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | 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 good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | more you realize what can be photographed |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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