| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | One should really use the camera as though |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Dorothea Lange |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | - Sam Abell |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Adams | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | It is not the language of painters but the |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Lange |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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