| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| - Sam Abell | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography records the gamut of feelings | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| - Edward Steichen | - Aaron Siskind |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | be made. - Sam Abell |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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