| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | It is not the language of painters but the |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| I think the best pictures are often on the edges | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| of any situation, I don't find photographing the | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| situation nearly as interesting as | |
| photographing the edges. - William Albert | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Allard | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | communicate more powerfully than either |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | 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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