| Now to consult the rules of composition before | ...words and pictures can work together to |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | communicate more powerfully than either |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | alone. -William Albert Allard |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | You've got to push yourself harder. You've got |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | to start looking for pictures nobody else could |
| | take. You've got to take the tools you have and |
| Photography takes an instant out of time, | probe deeper. - William Albert Allard |
| altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea | |
| Lange | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| I almost never set out to photograph a | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| means of recording a mountain or an animal | |
| unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| first thought is always of light. - Galen | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| Rowell | |
| | I think the best pictures are often on the edges |
| One should really use the camera as though | of any situation, I don't find photographing the |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | situation nearly as interesting as |
| - Dorothea Lange | photographing the edges. - William Albert |
| | Allard |
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