| Once photography enters your bloodstream, | A great photograph is one that fully expresses |
| it's like a disease. - Anon | what one feels, in the deepest sense, about |
| | what is being photographed. - Ansel |
| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Adams |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | A room hung with pictures is a room hung with |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | thoughts. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| | 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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| 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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| ...words and pictures can work together to | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| communicate more powerfully than either | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | |
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