| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| You just have to care about what's around you | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography is about finding out what can |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| | edges around some facts, you change those |
| It is not the language of painters but the | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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