"Don't go through life with your eyes closed, even though you may have chosen photography as your vocation. The machine may see for you, but its eye is dead. Your eye should furnish it with life. But don't believe that all open eyes see. Seeing needs practice- just like photography itself."

Alfred Stieglitz, Steiglitz on Photography, Aperture, 2000.

"It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare."

Walker Evans