| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Adams | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Rowell |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| more you realize what can be photographed | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Lange | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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