| Memory is very important, the memory of | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | It is not the language of painters but the |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | has to transform the photographer into an |
| You just have to care about what's around you | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | |
| | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| | would be slowed down by painting or |
| | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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