| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | |
| world about you, and trust to your own | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | Weston |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
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