| I think you have to have a real point of view | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| communicate more powerfully than either | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Adams |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | |
| - Sam Abell | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| has to transform the photographer into an | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | more you realize what can be photographed |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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