| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, | Adams |
| of loving. What you have caught on film is | |
| captured forever . . . it remembers little things, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| long after you have forgotten everything. | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| - Aaron Siskind | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | more you realize what can be photographed |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| has to transform the photographer into an | those that you are going to make. |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | That's life! - John Sexton |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | - Edward Steichen |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
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