| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | situation nearly as interesting as |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | Allard |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | 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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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | 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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