| 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 |
| Photography is about finding out what can | |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | It is not the language of painters but the |
| edges around some facts, you change those | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| 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 | |
| | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| - Dorothea Lange | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Adams |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | |
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