| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | it's like a disease. - Anon |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| more you realize what can be photographed | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | - Sam Abell |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | would be slowed down by painting or |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | |
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