| You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of |
| matter of noticing things and organizing them. | a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams |
| You just have to care about what's around you | |
| and have a concern with humanity and the | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | |
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| I think you have to have a real point of view | Photography suits the temper of this ageof |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | active bodies and minds. It is a perfect |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | medium for one whose mind is teeming with |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | would be slowed down by painting or |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | One should really use the camera as though |
| those that you are going to make. | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | - Dorothea Lange |
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