| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Adams |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Rowell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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