| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| more you realize what can be photographed | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Rowell |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| situation nearly as interesting as | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | would be slowed down by painting or |
| Allard | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| edges around some facts, you change those | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | be made. - Sam Abell |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Photography is my passion. - Alfred |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | Stieglitz |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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