| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | world about you, and trust to your own |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| more you realize what can be photographed | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| | - Ansel Adams |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | those that you are going to make. |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Weston | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | |
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