| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| has to transform the photographer into an | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Rowell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | |
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