| 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 | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| world about you, and trust to your own | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | would be slowed down by painting or |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| | Weston |
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