| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Weston | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| would be slowed down by painting or | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | situation nearly as interesting as |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | be made. - Sam Abell |
| those that you are going to make. | |
| That's life! - John Sexton | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| | world about you, and trust to your own |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| - Edward Steichen | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
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