| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
| Photography records the gamut of feelings | Rowell |
| written on the human face, the beauty of the | |
| earth and skies that man has inherited and the | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| wealth and confusion man has created. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| - Edward Steichen | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | more you realize what can be photographed |
| be made. - Sam Abell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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