| "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| world about you, and trust to your own | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: | - Sam Abell |
| "Does this subject move me to feel, think | |
| and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| personal statement of what I feel and want to | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| convey - from the subject before me?" | |
| - Ansel Adams | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Rowell |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| those that you are going to make. | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Photography is about finding out what can | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | |
| edges around some facts, you change those | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | Adams |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | |
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