| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | those that you are going to make. |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | That's life! - John Sexton |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
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| 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 | |
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| The camera makes everyone a tourist in other | Keep it simple. - Alfred Eienstaedt |
| people's reality. - Susan Sontag | |
| | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Weston | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
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| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | situation nearly as interesting as |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | Allard |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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