| Photography is my passion. - Alfred | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Stieglitz | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| edges around some facts, you change those | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | Weston |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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