| A room hung with pictures is a room hung with | The virtue of the camera is not the power it |
| thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds | has to transform the photographer into an |
| | artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on |
| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | looking. - Brooks Anderson |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | I almost never set out to photograph a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a |
| more you realize what can be photographed | means of recording a mountain or an animal |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | first thought is always of light. - Galen |
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| Memory is very important, the memory of | It is not the language of painters but the |
| each photo taken, flowing at the same speed | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| as the event. During the work, you have to be | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| captured everything, because afterwards it will | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| be too late. - Henri Cartier Bresson | |
| | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| You've got to push yourself harder. You've got | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| to start looking for pictures nobody else could | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| take. You've got to take the tools you have and | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| probe deeper. - William Albert Allard | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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