| ...words and pictures can work together to | It is not the language of painters but the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| Photography is about finding out what can | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| No place is boring, if you've had a good | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | - Sam Abell |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | has to transform the photographer into an |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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