| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Stieglitz | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| You just have to care about what's around you | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Weston |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
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