| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Weston | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| world about you, and trust to your own | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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