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

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

- Eliot Porter

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at things, the more you see. …

- Eliot Porter

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

- Eliot Porter

Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a butt…

- Eliot Porter

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy hum…

- Eliot Porter

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is there.

- Eliot Porter

I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so…

- Eliot Porter

I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

- Eliot Porter