| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Allard |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | |
| | 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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