| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| world about you, and trust to your own | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | more you realize what can be photographed |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| - Ansel Adams | |
| | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| 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 | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Weston | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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