| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | situation nearly as interesting as |
| world about you, and trust to your own | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | Allard |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| has to transform the photographer into an | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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| One should really use the camera as though | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| - Dorothea Lange | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | 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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