| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| be made. - Sam Abell | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| world about you, and trust to your own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| Weston | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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