| It is not the language of painters but the | One should really use the camera as though |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | - Dorothea Lange |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | has to transform the photographer into an |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | more you realize what can be photographed |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography knows how to authenticate its | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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