| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| - Sam Abell | situation nearly as interesting as |
| | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Allard |
| has to transform the photographer into an | |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Adams |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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