| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | - Sam Abell |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | has to transform the photographer into an |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
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New York |
San Jose |
Jacksonville |
Houston |
Dearborn |
Whittier |
Sumter |
Allentown |
Huntington Beach |
St. George |
Sherman |
Wichita |
Santee |
Bastrop |
New Castle |
Piqua |
Natchitoches |
Leeds |
Dana Point |
Howell |
Itasca |
Oak Ridge |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| those that you are going to make. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| That's life! - John Sexton | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| communicate more powerfully than either | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
| | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| Photography is about finding out what can | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| edges around some facts, you change those | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | - Aaron Siskind |
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