| No place is boring, if you've had a good | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | those that you are going to make. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | That's life! - John Sexton |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | - Sam Abell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| be made. - Sam Abell | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| It is not the language of painters but the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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