| It is not the language of painters but the | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | more you realize what can be photographed |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| communicate more powerfully than either | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | would be slowed down by painting or |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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