| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| It is not the language of painters but the | more you realize what can be photographed |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| | those that you are going to make. |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | That's life! - John Sexton |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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