| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | - Ansel Adams |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Aaron Siskind |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | One should really use the camera as though |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | - Dorothea Lange |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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