| 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 |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | It is not the language of painters but the |
| those that you are going to make. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
| | 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 |
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