| Photography records the gamut of feelings | It is not the language of painters but the |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| - Edward Steichen | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | - Aaron Siskind |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| 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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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| more you realize what can be photographed | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Rowell |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | has to transform the photographer into an |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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