| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | It is not the language of painters but the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Sam Abell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Stieglitz |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | 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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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| those that you are going to make. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| That's life! - John Sexton | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Photography is about finding out what can | more you realize what can be photographed |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| edges around some facts, you change those | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | situation nearly as interesting as |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Allard |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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