| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| would be slowed down by painting or | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | be made. - Sam Abell |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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