| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| world about you, and trust to your own | those that you are going to make. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | That's life! - John Sexton |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| - Ansel Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| 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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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | has to transform the photographer into an |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| You just have to care about what's around you | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Weston |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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