| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | - Sam Abell |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | communicate more powerfully than either |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Edward Steichen |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| 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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