| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | It is not the language of painters but the |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| would be slowed down by painting or | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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