| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | One should really use the camera as though |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Dorothea Lange |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Sam Abell |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| be made. - Sam Abell | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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