| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | It is not the language of painters but the |
| | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| situation nearly as interesting as | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | |
| Allard | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| would be slowed down by painting or | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | Photography is about finding out what can |
| One should really use the camera as though | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | edges around some facts, you change those |
| - Dorothea Lange | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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