| A great photograph is one that fully expresses | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| what one feels, in the deepest sense, about | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| what is being photographed. - Ansel | |
| Adams | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | communicate more powerfully than either |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| One should really use the camera as though | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| - Dorothea Lange | - Edward Steichen |
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