| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| more you realize what can be photographed | - Aaron Siskind |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | One should really use the camera as though |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
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