| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| those that you are going to make. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| That's life! - John Sexton | |
| | You learn to see by practice. It's just like |
| Photography is a major force in explaining | playing tennis, you get better the more you |
| man to man. - Edward Steichen | play. The more you look around at things, the |
| | more you see. The more you photograph, the |
| Photography knows how to authenticate its | more you realize what can be photographed |
| misrepresentations. - Mason Cooley | and what can't be photographed. You just have |
| | to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter |
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| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | It is not the language of painters but the |
| A mad, keen photographer needs to get out | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| into the world and work and make mistakes. | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| - Sam Abell | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
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