| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | would be slowed down by painting or |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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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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| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | world about you, and trust to your own |
| situation nearly as interesting as | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| Allard | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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