| Now to consult the rules of composition before | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | has to transform the photographer into an |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| It is not the language of painters but the | |
| language of nature which one should listen to. | A mad, keen photographer needs to get out |
| . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for | into the world and work and make mistakes. |
| reality, is more important than the feeling for | - Sam Abell |
| pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | You just have to care about what's around you |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | situation nearly as interesting as |
| those that you are going to make. | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| That's life! - John Sexton | Allard |
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