| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| You just have to care about what's around you | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
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| 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 |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| Rowell | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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