| Now to consult the rules of composition before | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
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| Photography takes an instant out of time, | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| Lange | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | 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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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| has to transform the photographer into an | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| | - Edward Steichen |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | Photography is about finding out what can |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | happen in the frame. When you put four |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | edges around some facts, you change those |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | facts. - Gary Winogrand |
| 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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