| 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 | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | 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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| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| be made. - Sam Abell | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| | Adams |
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