| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | more you realize what can be photographed |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | |
| Rowell | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | communicate more powerfully than either |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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