| One should really use the camera as though | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you realize what can be photographed |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Rowell | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | - Aaron Siskind |
| 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. |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| communicate more powerfully than either | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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