| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Sam Abell | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| One should really use the camera as though | |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
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| ...words and pictures can work together to | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| communicate more powerfully than either | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| alone. -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 | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | 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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