| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| has to transform the photographer into an | communicate more powerfully than either |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
| | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | |
| would be slowed down by painting or | Photography is about finding out what can |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | edges around some facts, you change those |
| | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| It is not the language of painters but the | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | You just have to care about what's around you |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
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