| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | Weston |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | One should really use the camera as though |
| | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | - Dorothea Lange |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| You just have to care about what's around you | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | communicate more powerfully than either |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | |
| | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
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