| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| world about you, and trust to your own | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | Adams |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Ansel Adams | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | more you realize what can be photographed |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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 suits the temper of this ageof | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| would be slowed down by painting or | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | edges around some facts, you change those |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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