| Photography is about finding out what can | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| edges around some facts, you change those | You just have to care about what's around you |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| those that you are going to make. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | It is not the language of painters but the |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| - Sam Abell | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| Weston | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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