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  A great photograph is one that fully expresses    Memory is very important, the memory of  
  what one feels, in the deepest sense, about    each photo taken, flowing at the same speed  
  what is being photographed. - Ansel    as the event. During the work, you have to be  
  Adams    sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've  
      captured everything, because afterwards it will  
  You learn to see by practice. It's just like    be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson  
  playing tennis, you get better the more you      
  play. The more you look around at things, the    ...words and pictures can work together to  
  more you see. The more you photograph, the    communicate more powerfully than either  
  more you realize what can be photographed    alone. -William Albert Allard  
  and what can't be photographed. You just have      
  to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter      

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  "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the    The virtue of the camera is not the power it  
  world about you, and trust to your own    has to transform the photographer into an  
  reactions and convictions. Ask yourself:    artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on  
  "Does this subject move me to feel, think    looking. - Brooks Anderson  
  and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own      
  personal statement of what I feel and want to    Photography suits the temper of this ageof  
  convey - from the subject before me?"    active bodies and minds. It is a perfect  
  - Ansel Adams    medium for one whose mind is teeming with  
      ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who  
  It is not the language of painters but the    would be slowed down by painting or  
  language of nature which one should listen to.    sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts  
  . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for    decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston  
  reality, is more important than the feeling for      
  pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh      

 
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