| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| - Aaron Siskind | more you realize what can be photographed |
| | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| those that you are going to make. | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| | Rowell |
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