| I think you have to have a real point of view | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Adams |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | more you realize what can be photographed |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| - Sam Abell | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | - Ansel Adams |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| would be slowed down by painting or | Lange |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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