| It is not the language of painters but the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | more you realize what can be photographed |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| I almost never set out to photograph a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | edges around some facts, you change those |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| 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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