| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| - Sam Abell | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| has to transform the photographer into an | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| I almost never set out to photograph a | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | more you realize what can be photographed |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography is a major force in explaining | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| communicate more powerfully than either | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| Photography is about finding out what can | It is not the language of painters but the |
| happen in the frame. When you put four | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| edges around some facts, you change those | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| facts. - Gary Winogrand | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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