| Photography knows how to authenticate its | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| | be made. - Sam Abell |
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| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| Adams | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | One should really use the camera as though |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | - Dorothea Lange |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
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