| One should really use the camera as though | It is not the language of painters but the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Dorothea Lange | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | world about you, and trust to your own |
| | reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | "Does this subject move me to feel, think |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | personal statement of what I feel and want to |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | convey - from the subject before me?" |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | - Ansel Adams |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| communicate more powerfully than either | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Photography is about finding out what can | more you realize what can be photographed |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| edges around some facts, you change those | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | |
| | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | Adams |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | |
| - Edward Steichen | |
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