| I think you have to have a real point of view | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| those that you are going to make. | situation nearly as interesting as |
| That's life! - John Sexton | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | - Sam Abell |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| | has to transform the photographer into an |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
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| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | One should really use the camera as though |
| world about you, and trust to your own | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Dorothea Lange |
| "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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