| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | It is not the language of painters but the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| more you realize what can be photographed | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| 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 | |
| | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | has to transform the photographer into an |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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