| It is not the language of painters but the | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | situation nearly as interesting as |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | Allard |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Weston | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| - Dorothea Lange | communicate more powerfully than either |
| | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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