| It is not the language of painters but the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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Grants |
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Menominee |
Cumberland Gap |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Weston |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Rowell |
| 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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