| I think you have to have a real point of view | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | world about you, and trust to your own |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | - Sam Abell |
| Adams | |
| | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | Weston |
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| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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