| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Adams |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | more you realize what can be photographed |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| 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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