| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | It is not the language of painters but the |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| would be slowed down by painting or | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| - Dorothea Lange | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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