| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | would be slowed down by painting or |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| Adams | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | It is not the language of painters but the |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| communicate more powerfully than either | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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