| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| has to transform the photographer into an | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| 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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| It is not the language of painters but the | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | communicate more powerfully than either |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Photography is about finding out what can |
| | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | edges around some facts, you change those |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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