| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | situation nearly as interesting as |
| Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | communicate more powerfully than either |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | |
| - Aaron Siskind | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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