| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Aaron Siskind | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| Rowell | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Weston | 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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