| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | those that you are going to make. |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | - Sam Abell |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| 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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