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The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

— Eliot Porter

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can…

— Elliott Erwitt

I don't think you can develop or learn a way of seeing or a point of view. A way of seeing is who you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at…

— David Hockney

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger…

— Aaron Huey

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it…

— George Rodger

I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're…

— Debra Granik

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something,…

— Lynn Johnston