| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| has to transform the photographer into an | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| - Sam Abell | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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