| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | would be slowed down by painting or |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | be made. - Sam Abell |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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