| I think you have to have a real point of view | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | would be slowed down by painting or |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Adams |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | You just have to care about what's around you |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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