| It is not the language of painters but the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Sam Abell |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Stieglitz | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| 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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| Photography is a major force in explaining | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Allard |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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