| It is not the language of painters but the | Photography is about finding out what can |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | edges around some facts, you change those |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
| | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | - Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| would be slowed down by painting or | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | situation nearly as interesting as |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
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