| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
| | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| be made. - Sam Abell | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | 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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| One should really use the camera as though | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| - Dorothea Lange | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| - Sam Abell | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | You just have to care about what's around you |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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