| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Allard | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | 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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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Sam Abell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| It is not the language of painters but the | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | would be slowed down by painting or |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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