| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | - Aaron Siskind |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| 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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