| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| No place is boring, if you've had a good | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| night's sleep and have a pocket full of | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| unexposed film. - Robert Adams | |
| | Once photography enters your bloodstream, |
| Sometimes you can tell a large story with a | it's like a disease. - Anon |
| tiny subject. - Eliot Porter | |
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| My own eyes are no more than scouts on a | Photography knows how to authenticate its |
| preliminary search, for the camera's eye may | misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley |
| entirely change my idea. - Edward | |
| Weston | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
| 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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