| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| would be slowed down by painting or | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be made. - Sam Abell |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | world about you, and trust to your own |
| has to transform the photographer into an | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| those that you are going to make. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| communicate more powerfully than either | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| 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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