| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
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