| It is not the language of painters but the | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| | - Sam Abell |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Weston |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| edges around some facts, you change those | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| - Edward Steichen | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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