| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| - Aaron Siskind | - Edward Steichen |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | those that you are going to make. |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | That's life! - John Sexton |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | would be slowed down by painting or |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | The difficulty with color is to go beyond the |
| | fact that it's color to have it be not just a |
| | colorful picture but really be a picture about |
| | something. It's difficult. So often color gets |
| | caught up in color, and it becomes merely |
| | decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] |
| | brilliantly to make visual statements combining |
| | color and content; otherwise it is empty. |
| | - Mary Ellen Mark |
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