| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| world about you, and trust to your own | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | situation nearly as interesting as |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Allard |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| communicate more powerfully than either | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | would be slowed down by painting or |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | |
| those that you are going to make. | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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