| It is not the language of painters but the | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | Weston |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | One should really use the camera as though |
| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | - Dorothea Lange |
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| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | - Sam Abell |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
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| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Memory is very important, the memory of |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | each photo taken, flowing at the same speed |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | as the event. During the work, you have to be |
| | sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've |
| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | captured everything, because afterwards it will |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
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