| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | My own eyes are no more than scouts on a |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | preliminary search, for the camera's eye may |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | entirely change my idea. - Edward |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | Weston |
| more you realize what can be photographed | |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | One should really use the camera as though |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. |
| | - Dorothea Lange |
| A picture is the expression of an impression. If | |
| the beautiful were not in us, how would we | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other |
| ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas | people's reality. - Susan Sontag |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | [Photography] is a way of feeling, of touching, |
| those that you are going to make. | of loving. What you have caught on film is |
| That's life! - John Sexton | captured forever . . . it remembers little things, |
| | long after you have forgotten everything. |
| ...words and pictures can work together to | - Aaron Siskind |
| communicate more powerfully than either | |
| alone. -William Albert Allard | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| 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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