| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | would be slowed down by painting or |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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