| I almost never set out to photograph a | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | more you realize what can be photographed |
| Rowell | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| Weston | You just have to care about what's around you |
| | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| those that you are going to make. | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| Memory is very important, the memory of | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | reflection . . . - 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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