| Now to consult the rules of composition before | Photography records the gamut of feelings |
| making a picture is a little like consulting the | written on the human face, the beauty of the |
| law of gravitation before going for a walk. | earth and skies that man has inherited and the |
| Such rules and laws are deduced from the | wealth and confusion man has created. |
| accomplished fact; they are the products of | - Edward Steichen |
| reflection . . . - Edward Weston | |
| | Pictures you have taken have an influence on |
| Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid | those that you are going to make. |
| mental images of scenes I cared for and failed | That's life! - John Sexton |
| to photograph. It is the edgy existence within | |
| me of these unmade images that is the only | |
| assurance that the best photographs are yet to | |
| be made. - Sam Abell | |
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| The virtue of the camera is not the power it | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| has to transform the photographer into an | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on | |
| looking. - Brooks Anderson | A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
| | - Vincent Van Gogh |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | A picture is the expression of an impression. If |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | the beautiful were not in us, how would we |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | |
| 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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