| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| has to transform the photographer into an | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | |
| 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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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | - Edward Steichen |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Adams | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| situation nearly as interesting as | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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