| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| - Edward Steichen | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| | - Aaron Siskind |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Sam Abell | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | more you realize what can be photographed |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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