| Photography knows how to authenticate its | It is not the language of painters but the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| would be slowed down by painting or | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | 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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