| One should really use the camera as though | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| - Dorothea Lange | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| - Sam Abell | |
| | Photography takes an instant out of time, |
| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea |
| has to transform the photographer into an | Lange |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | |
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| Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | Photography is about finding out what can |
| You just have to care about what's around you | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | edges around some facts, you change those |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | communicate more powerfully than either |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| 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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