| It is not the language of painters but the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| - Ansel Adams | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| Weston | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
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