| It is not the language of painters but the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| - Aaron Siskind | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | 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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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| has to transform the photographer into an | those that you are going to make. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | That's life! - John Sexton |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| - Sam Abell | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| 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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