The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner.
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"I mean, sometimes I think I can take a halfway-decent photo, and sometimes I feel like I'm faking it... like I don't have a clue."
She nodded. "I'm no photographer, but I totally understand that feeling."
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"...what makes your stuff unique is probably more about your vision -- your way of looking at the world -- than about standing in a certain spot and pushing a button."
The 9:09 Project by Mark H. Parsons, pg. 129-130
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