| Photography is a major force in explaining | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | Allard |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | - Sam Abell |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| be made. - Sam Abell | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | Rowell |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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