| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | Adams |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | situation nearly as interesting as |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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